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["Andraž \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

David Kowis wrote :

> Andraž "ruskie" Levstik wrote:
> > Flavien Bridault wrote :
> >
> >> That would be good indeed that we normalize that. Not especially for us,
> >> but above all for the users. It should be less confusing to have only
> >> one convention.
> >
> > We already normalized this:
> > http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Multi_Version_Spells
> > https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2005-August/011906.html
> >
> > I don't really see any use in reopening this topic.
> 
> I'm going to note that there's nothing "official" about that doc. It's just 
> an
> example. There's no "official" policy thats written down that says that we
> MUST do
> it this way. This is just how you would go about doing it. Just having the 
> doc
> doesn't mean that it must be done that way.
> 

In case you didn't check the mailing list link it was moved into
official docs pre-server crash.

Mail quote for the lazy:
>> I know you have been busy and I've needed this info for a few spells
>> recently so I went ahead and created a doc.  Take a look at it and let
>> me
>> know if it's ok or if it needs changes.  I have it set to not published
>> right now so it won't show up to people just browsing the site.
>> 
>> http://www.sourcemage.org/spell-multi_version

That link is atm dead since not much was happening in the meantime.

> The use in reopening this topic is, if we do ${SPELL}-cvs it's easier to
> ensure
> dependencies. Subdepends must be used in the other case, and those aren't
> exactly
> simple.

Also it is noted http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Multi_Version_Spells that
where there is need to depend on a -whatever version of the spell
specificaly it's allowed to have a $spell-$version spell.

>From the site:
First rule for allowing such a version choice is that all
dependencies of the spell need to work with all versions, otherwise the
spell should be split.

Examples:
ffmpeg and ffmpeg-svn
automake, automake1.7, automake1.8
jack and jack-cvs

All of these are specific.

> Also, perhaps we should have some official documentation
> repository. The
> wiki is for documents under development. At least, that was the original
> plan. It
> might be wise to have a few grimoire guru's spin through the wiki
> documentation
> and determine what we do and don't do and get it on to the official drupal
> site in
> some organized fashion.
> 
> David
> 
> 

Also note this document was written by Arwed as a standard on how we use
this in response for a need to standardize this.

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