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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 08:27:20AM +0500, Alexander Tsamutali wrote:
> So even if i have the latest version of gtk+ some gnome_spell can force
> recompilation? And what if we have minor update and my current gtk+
> version is not the latest but enough for gnome_spell - there is no need
> to recompile gtk+! The only way to ensure that we realy need to update
> gtk+ is to compare currently installed version and what our gnome_spell
> needs.

The force_depends would be conditional upon the gtk+ version. So it
wouldn't force recompilation unless the version is different. "version
is different" of course could be defined as "major version bump" so
minor version bumps would not force recompilation. Spells have a pretty
wide range of freedom over how they use an interface. Please consider
the possibilities more carefully.


> 
> Second argument for multibersion support in sorcery are simplifications
> for users. Currently many spells ask users about installing CVS, DEVEL,
> SOME_OTHER version. Consider the folloing beaautiful future:
> 
> $ cast firefox
> ok, the latest stable firefox is 2.0.8
> downloading firefox-2.0.8.tar.bz2
> ...
> 
> $ cast --with-versions firefox
> please choose the version you love:
> [0] CVS (unstable)
> [1] 2.5rc1 (unstable)
> [2] 2.0.8 (stable)
> [3] 1.5.0.7 (old)
> [4] 1.0.8 (historical)
> downloading firefox-2.5rc1.tar.bz2

Sorry, maybe im being dense here, how is this simpler or even different
from what already exists? The only difference I see is the default case
you skip the query, and the --with-versions thing you add a query which
could already exist in a spell without touching sorcery at all.

Please explain what exactly you want sorcery to do, and how that
functionality is not currently possible _in_any_way_ with existing
interfaces sorcery already provides to spells.

-Andrew

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