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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:53:02AM +0200, Andrew ruskie Levstik wrote:
> > Arwed von Merkatz wrote :
> >
> > > First of all: If any other spell depends on a specific version of spell
> > > A then spell A _must not_ allow other versions. This means that the
> > > current apr/apr-util spells are broken as the apache2 spell requires the
> > > 0.9.x versions of them. In such cases the different versions should be
> > > provided by seperate spells, see ffmpeg/ffmpeg-cvs for another example
> > > where this is required.
> > >
> > Yes this is a good idea.
> >
> > > What I'd like to see:
> > > - spell asks which version to use, always defaulting to the stable
> > >   version
> > Yes the most secure and sane idea.
> >
> > > - spell asks if it should automatically update everytime sorcery
> > >   queue/system-update is run (only for cvs/svn/... versions)
> > You mean ask as in do you want to always autoupdate or do you want to
> > manualy update? So that the user has a choice of autoupdating or not.
> > Or did you have something else in mind?
> > This is what I'd like to see:
> >
> > config_query CVS "Do you want cvs" "n"
> > if [[ "$CVS" == "y" ]]
> > then
> >   config_query "AUTOUPDATE" "Do you want to autoupdate this spell or not."
> "n"
> > fi
> > And then a test in DETAILS for it?
> > if [[ "$CVS" == "y" ]]
> > then
> > if [[ "$AUTOUPDATE" == "y" ]]
> > then
> >   VERSION=$(date +%F) #+%F outputs date as %Y-%m-%d though I'd go with a
> unixtime string
> >                       #here maybe ppl would like to update multiple times
> per day and
> >                       #still have the old caches.
> > else
> >   VERSION=cvs
> > fi
>
> This is exactly what I had in mind.
>
> > > All questions asked in PREPARE, dependency on the vcs added depending on
> > > the choice.
> > >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > > If the spell is not set to automatically update, VERSION should be set
> > > to a constant string (e.g. HEAD, TRUNK).
> >
> > I'd put the vcs that is used for it i.e. 
> > cvs,svn,whateverelsewemightsupport
>
> That's fine with me, it doesn't really matter what it is as long as it
> doesn't change, but we should have a standard.

This sounds like a good idea.

-sandalle

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