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[Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>]

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> On Saturday July 12 2003 07:27, Duane Malcolm wrote:
> 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.
>
Versioning is done in Gentoo and it is a big pain / complaint from the users 
that it is a mess... I would not be for adopting it here. 


> 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.
>
This is always interesting...

After reading this thread for awhile, that is all I wanted to say.

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