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  • From: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>
  • To: Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org, Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] devel / stable versions
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:23:49 -0400


That almost sounds like it's shifting the complex part around a bit. Rather than having multiple simple spells, we would have more complex single spells.

Not really, I'm suggesting to solve this in sorcery, and the second DETAILS would be needed anyway.

If the spell is set up right, users would not have both the -devel spell and the stable installed, the CONFLICTS file. I also don't see using requires really messing up the grimoire much. I think this is a viable option.

In the end though, my main point was to try and give user the option to install the devel version, without forcing it on them.

Than the first question should be, why current system of devel/test/stable grimoires doesn't solve this? Maybe instead of pushing from devel to test every week or two, we have to establish some kind of a "signal" in a spell as to whether it's ready to go into test/stable? And that wouldn't be just a section guru's call, but something like "three successful" installs. If sorcery would send back (non-private) information that such and such spell has just succeeded installing (or group such messages into packages to send all of it at once), our "back-end" would push the spell into test after three successful reports?






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