Sorry for the personal answer Thijs, this was meant to go to the list. __________________
Hello Thijs, Thanks for your answer. Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 17:25 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit : [...] > > * package granularity: I have currently 7 add-on packages (one more > > coming soon), each one rather small (few 100K each) but coming from a > > different upstream and depending on different libraries (like libtiff, > > zlib and other). Should I keep these add-ons separate or compile a > > single yorick-addons package? (I need this question sorted out before > > I start filling ITP bugs). > > With 'different upstream', do you mean different upstream tarballs and > upstream authors? Yes. Some of the packages come from a single author, but that's definitely different upstream tarballs. > Then I'd stick with the > one-source-package-per-upstream approach. Merging stuff from different > upstream sources makes sense when they are very numerous and/or very > small. They do not seem to be exceptionally small, nor is there a very > big number of them. [...] > > I have the reversed question for the upcoming package (yeti, > > http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/~thiebaut/yeti/yeti-6.0.2.tar.gz ) > > which is indeed 4 plugins: a set of general purpose utilities, and > > wrappers for regex functionnalities, libtiff and libfftw2. If I stick > > to one package per plugin, should I split this one? > > Ok, are you talking about source or binary packages here? For source > packages, the reasoning might be the same as above. Yes, I have started with a single source package and multiple binaries. (the upstream package is really thought that way). [...] > > > > If I go for grouping all the add-ons in a single package, what version > > numbers should I use for it? > > It should be sensible. Is there a common denominator in the version > numbers of all the contents (e.g. they all start with abc) then you > could use that as a basis. If there's absolutely no connection at all > between the version numbers, you could use the date you put them all > together. No, they range from 0.1 to 6.0.2. If I go that route, I think a date scheme, perhaps prepended with a major number that I would bump when adding/removing one of the plugins from the package would be a good idea. Actually, if I stay with the one-package-per-plugin approach, I was thinking of providing a virtual package that would pull out yorick and all the plugins (except perhaps the most specialised). Would that make sense? In that case, I also need to think of a reasonable versionning. (the above looks OK). Best regards, Thibaut. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
