On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:02:17PM -0500, Brian Keener wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>evil and should be abolished. The only way to get old versions should >>be at a macro level. You click a button and get all of the old stuff, >>you click another button and get all of the current stuff, you click >>another button to get all of the test stuff. >> >>I think that Robert is right that if you click on test you should only >>get packages that have test versions. Ditto for prev. Ditto for curr. > >Sorry guys, > >I still like the idea of keeping Prev,Curr and Test but as a means of >limiting the maximum version I want to see - IE if I didn't select Test >I won't see any test but I will see prev and Current. > >Then I suggest we do away with the Source Box and nix the idea of a bin >box and simply use the clickable version and within the version we have >such entities as the following (assume the version installed is 1.4.3 >and there is a current of 1.4.4 and I have curr selected on the radio >buttons):
I really think that cycling behavior of the current setup is a major source of confusion for most people. >keep/skip (obviously skip if nothing were installed), uninstall (would >only exist if package installed), 1.4.4 bin&src, 1.4.4 bin, 1.4.4 src, >reinstall bin&src (would reinstall both for 1.4.3), reinstall bin >(reinstall bin for 1.4.3), reinstall src (reinstall src for 1.4.3), >retrieve bin&src (retrieves installed bin and src), retrieve bin >(retrieves installed bin), retrieve src (retrieves installed src), >retrieve 1.4.4 bin&src ... Sorry, but I really don't like this. Adding a whole bunch of new things for a user to cycle through (or even select from a pulldown) is moving in the wrong direction, IMO. cgf
