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[Arjan Bouter <abouter AT sourcemage.org>]

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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