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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

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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