On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:21:16PM -0400, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Charles Lepple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does anyone have an issue with upgrading Twisted to 8.1? Someone mentioned
> > on the Buildbot list that Python 2.5 breaks some things in Twisted 2.1 (the
> > current version), and nobody is listed as a maintainer for Twisted.
> >
> > I'll take a stab at upgrading if nobody complains, but it isn't going to be
> > pretty if I do it. Suggestions appreciated.
> 
> Along these lines, would anyone be upset if I merged all of Twisted
> into a single twisted8 package?
> 
> I could go either way, really, but it seems easier to make one big
> package than to update a bunch of smaller packages that all seem to
> get updated at about the same time as the main tarball.
> 
> Since there aren't many Fink packages that use Twisted, I assume that
> it was originally packaged for projects outside Fink. I would leave
> the twisted2-* packages as-is for now, but later we could change them
> to depend on twisted8.
> 

I personally would prefer that they stay separate as this is more
consistent with both upstream, and other systems (such as debian). It
also means less has to be rebuilt/installed when updates are posted.

On an slightly related note, I have some .info files for twisted2.5 if
anybody is interested.

-- 
Greg Darke

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