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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

Hamish Greig wrote:

> Someone correct me if i am wrong but the reason we have multiple grimoires is 
> to provide stability. Contents of stable grimoire are KNOWN to work in 
> combination with each other. How would  version dependancies be sorted out 
> with a STABILITY system ?
> IE. 
> If stable grimoire mozilla needs gtk+2 2.4.2 then that is the GTK+2 version in 
> stable. If mozilla 1.5 needs gtk+2 2.4.9 how does a stability rating help 
> this ? Stability that is reliant on so many other other packages cant be 
> quantified so simply IMHO.
Good point and you are right versioning may solve this problem.

> Spells could migrate to stable quickly after extensive testing, including 
> updated dependancies if needed(once again after extensive testing) and the 
> end-user would have a choice of whether to upgrade all 5 needed spells or to 
> wait until a larger update is necessary.It is ALWAYS possible to refuse to 
> cast a spell if you are happy with your current setup. but if you DO choose 
> to update then all dependancies should be met.
> Feedback from users will become crucial in this so please sharpen your pencils 
> and get into this thread!
>  
I guess one way to get the ball rolling is to have a simple/basic 
feedback system. This would include the userid, cpu architecture, which 
grimoire used, a list of spell installed with version numbers and maybe 
the failed spells. We could sumbit these manually and generate stats 
from all the reports.

So I guess we need something to generate the report and something to 
collate the reports. I may have a play around. Any suggestions?

After we get these reports we can decide how to use the data.

Duane.