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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] devel / stable versions
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:41:46 -0700 (PDT)


Geoffrey Derber said:
> 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

This is how it SHOULD be anyways. Note that we do have some <spell>-devel
spells in sections (gimp-devel, for example). However, sometimes we
cannot help it for when the author removes all prior versions and/or the
older versions do not work with the version of X that we have in the
grimoire.

In general, though, if we can use the 'stable' release, please do, and if
you want to have the spell at a 'devel/beta' release, create a new spell
with '-devel' or '-beta' (preferably the former).

-sandalle

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