On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Greg Darke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

Less has to be built for non-maintainers, definitely :-)

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

Sure, you can send them to me off-list. I'm still in the early stages
of converting to 8.1, so if something had to be changed for 2.1 ->
2.5, then it probably is still needed for 8.1.

-- 
- Charles Lepple

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