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[Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

Why not a separate beta grimoire? I guess that's kind of like having two 
devels though.


Jeremy



Quoting Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>:

> Kind of a request for the future.
> 
> Can we move towards having all spells be the latest STABLE release, and 
> for devel releases, have second copy of the spell '-devel' on the end.
> 
> This might require that dependencies be taken care of more like the 
> requires method.  But I think it may be better in the end.
> 
> This would eliminate the beta mozilla versions, and the beta xfree86, 
> several others.  But I really think unless the person wants to use a 
> beta version, we should not try to force it on them w/ an update.  Have 
> them choose the beta / development branch specifically.  Then it is the 
> end users choice rather than, 'oh we want to use the latest devel 
> version, tough luck if you want to use an older version'
> 
> Another reason for doing it this way, I'd like to see us return if 
> possible to a point where people can safely update with a cron job and 
> know what they would be getting.
> 
> Geoff
> 
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