Martin Costabel wrote: [] > cd /sw/fink/10.4 > mv stable /dev/null > mv unstable stable > mv pangocairo-branch/unstable unstable > > I know it's a dream,
After looking for a while at the state of pangocairo-branch/stable, I am now convinced that what I proposed is not a dream, it is a necessity. I would now even go further and say: The only realistic way to deploy the pangocairo branch is to scrap not only the 10.4/stable tree, but also 10.4/unstable and pc/stable. At the moment of deployment, both 10.4/stable and 10.4/unstable should become a copy of pc/unstable. Afterwards, changes to the stable tree should concentrate on bug fixes (and eliminating non-working packages). Let's face it: - Since the time of the last official bindist (April 2006), *all* maintenance and testing efforts went into the unstable trees, and rightly so. From what I have seen, almost all the heroic work for the pangocairo branch went into unstable, too. - The existing live bindists are all based on the unstable tree, and our standard advice to a user who complains about a problem with the stable tree is to "activate unstable". _ On Leopard, no one in their right mind uses stable. All this gets urgent now with the pc-branch. The pc/stable tree is in large parts at least a year behind the 10.4/stable tree (Even gtk+2 is far older - 2.4.9 instead of 2.6.10). Merging it with 10.4/stable would be a *major* effort, and we should not waste our precious manpower with this. I personally know that I will not spend time with the 18 out of my 32 packages in pc/stable that are far older than their counterparts in 10.4/stable, nor with finding out why 5 packages - among them packages whose existence I have forgotten - exist in one tree and not in the other. Although I have never done this before, I would start unmaintaining packages. Keeping a pre-pangocairo/stable tree alongside a pangocairo/unstable tree will not work, either. How could we then move packages from unstable to stable? IMHO, the conclusion is inevitable. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
