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Martin Costabel wrote:
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Yes I did. One of our biggest bottle necks is I/O. Basically the things fink does internally are faster than we can feed those functions data. I did test this and the less data is read/written to/from the disk, the faster the overall situation gets.
Did you test wether this is really faster? I doubt that it's true. The parsing of variants and the creation of the virtual multiple packages is probably slower than the parsing of multiple but simpler info files.
No, it is not naive at all. I (and the core team as well as others) have been working the past 16 months to get procedures like this into place and for some things that works pretty well. Until now there has not really been a need for a strict package testing procedure, but with variants that might just become the case. The question is how to find a way to best implement this. making things as easy as possible, while still requiring a thorough check for variants enabled packages.All in all I can understand your concerns, but they have nothing to do with variants themselves, it is only a matter of introducing a strict and proper package testing procedure.
This is a little naive. People's behavior is strongly influenced by the tools they are using. Do you really expect that the maintainer of gimp2 has tested all 16 packages created from the gimp2.info file?
Not at all. There are enough that already hinted they want to sponsor hardware. As soon as Fink INC. is reality, that will be a possibility.My general advise would be to acquire a G5 or similar machine where selected people can have shell access. This machine would do nothing else but compile packages and their variants.
Nice dream :-)
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