2011/4/29 Christopher Faylor: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 03:23:31PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: >>On 24/04/2011 17:10, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 02:05:54PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: >>>> This recognizes any "[version]" line as introducing the information for >>>> another version, which doesn't have one of the trust levels [curr], [prev] >>>> or [test], and so isn't automatically selected when setup is >>>> >>>> Since the value of <version> carries no meaning, it might make more sense >>>> to mandate the use of a specific string like "[also]" or "[other]", or >>>> perhaps "[prev-1]", "[prev-2]", etc. >>>> >>>> I have written a corresponding patch to genini >>>> >>>> Setup already does all the neccessary sorting in version order etc. to >>>> use these additional versions. >>>> >>>> 2011-04-24 Jon TURNEY >>>> <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> * PackageTrust.h (trusts): Add TRUST_OTHER. >>>> * inilex.ll: tokenize any other [version] as the T_OTHER token. >>>> * iniparse.yy: Add T_OTHER token and set package trust >>>> to TRUST_OTHER when it is used. >>> >>> Sorry but what is this good for? Who would use it? >> >>If you are asking why a package maintainer might want this, then for e.g. [1] >> >>[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2011-03/msg00049.html > > Ok, there's one package maintainer who wants it. > > Since this is, IMO, a rather large departure from past convention, it would > be nice to see if this is something that other people want. > > This change will mean I'll need change to the program which generates > setup.ini so I'd like to make sure that this is going to be used.
I am in strong favor of this new feature. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/
