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  • From: Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>
  • To: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] devel / stable versions
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:47:38 -0500

Eric Sandall wrote:
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


The two spells I notice it the most on, usually just one, but recently a second, mozilla, up until the 1.4 release recently the stable version has been 1.3.1, not the 1.4a not 1.4b, but 1.3.1

And then the xfree86, it's the 4.3.0.1 not the 4.3.99.8.

Neither of those have had the prior packages removed. Remember, 'SHOULD' is not the same as 'IS'

Geoff





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