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  • From: Arjan Bouter <abouter AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] splitting cvs spells
  • Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:07:21 +0200

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:19:04 +0300
Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org> wrote:

> We were discussing this subject with ruskie, and I thought I should ask
> about
> it here: How many prefer having the cvs/devel version of a program
> integrated
> into the mainline spell, and how many think it's generally best to have
> separate spells?
>
> I'm for the latter option, it imho makes maintenance much easier both for
> the
> spell in question and for situations where other spells depend on features
> that are only found or missing in the cvs version. That's how we handle
> versioned dependencies otherwise anyway.
>
> I'm sure ruskie wants to present his point of view here, and others
> probably
> as well. I'd also like to see links to previous discussions, if someone has
> those.
>
> --
> Juuso Alasuutari
> [[ Source Mage GNU/Linux ]]

I'd prefer to have single spells with all versions.
There are some exceptions, such as the incompatible jack/jack-cvs and the
apaches.

Arjan


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