Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:27:04PM -0500, Brian Keener wrote: > >You don't. You find some other method for reverting to software that >is <1 revision old. This is not a hardship. AFAIK, setup has never >allowed you to do more than prev/curr/test. > A thought: mandate that every package tarball contain a standard-named install script - similar in concept to the Micro$quash setup.inf. Then simply keeping the old tarball would supply the user the mechanism to drop back to that version.
> >>I like the simpler approach for sure but let my option I select tell me >>everything - don't give me 4 different buttons and umpteen combinations >>to choose from to get where I want to be - talk about confusing. >> > >And how do you know when you've hit the current version? You see it >scroll by and remember that you want "1.4.9-1 bin" and then click the >mouse ten more times to get back to that. That's really not user >friendly, IMO. > >cgf > -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software. .
