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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:14:09AM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> 
> >On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:32:15AM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> >>These things just create more work but little gain for users. I'm
> >>against this.
> >
> >The point is, any cvs version is unsupported by us unless it checks out
> >a specific version/tag.
> >But there are several projects that release a version every other
> >millenium while the cvs version usually builds and works fine (ffmpeg,
> >mplayer), so the user should have a choice of using it. And while we're
> >at ffmpeg and mplayer, both of those only make real sense if you use
> >auto-updating as they _have_ to be checked out at roughly the same time
> >to work correctly together.
> 
> Do FORCE_DOWNLOAD=on and ask users to do "cast -c ffmpeg mplayer" 
> whenever they
> feel like playing Russian roulette again. You're giving them choice without
> losing control over their boxes. You also reduce traffic by doing 
> incremental
> update instead of full checkout.

They already do incremental updates instead of full checkouts.

> >I'm not saying we should have many of those spells, but there are cases
> >where they make sense. I only provide cvs version for very few video
> >spells because I _use_ those cvs versions and maintain the spells to
> >work with them, so I can as well make them available for users.
> 
> I am not against latest source, I'm against uncontrollable and unsupportable
> automatic daily updates. I created many "latest source" spells myself, so
> you're preaching to the choir here.
> 
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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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