On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:37:43 +0100, Hisham Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/17/06, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There was no good announcement (if there was none I must have missed it) >> that it was mandatory to use the new format of dependencies if versions >> were to be complied with. I also thought that there _might_ be people >> still using old versions of Compile, which uses Dependencies (and/or old >> versions of scripts) and I wanted to create as compatible recipes as >> possible (using new format would break the recipes for them). > > For this particular problem, the compile_version variable works well > enough, > warning that a recipe was designed to a more recent version of Compile. > Yes, I know. I was just overly causious and as I wasn't aware of the new format I thought that it wouldn't do any harm. >> André wrote: >> > The question is: >> > Should we keep dropping the version number of old-style dependencies >> > lines for recipes? Or should we rollback and interpret "Program X" as >> > "Program >= X" (like it is being done with binary packages)? >> > >> I think so, at least during a transition period. As it's implemented >> right >> now many recipe are broken on many systems as they might have an earlier >> version of the program installed and then CheckDependencies "think it's >> ok", even if the recipe requires a higher version. In the meantime >> RecipeLint (GenRecipeStore uses RecipeLint) would give an error if not >> the >> new format was used and Compile would use GenRecipeStore to pack the >> recipe, instead of a single tar operation (the last change I'll >> implement >> in a couple of minutes). In a couple of months enough recipes have been >> updated to drop the compability code (if it's even necesary) > > For new recipes, I think it's better to use ">=", "=", etc. explicitly > and use the > "compile_version" variable to instruct users to upgrade. > Yes, for new recipes I think that's the way to go. That's what I was after when I said that Compile should use GenRecipeStore (which uses RecipeLint on the recipe), to "force" users to use the new format. But how about the ~3800 recipes in the store (of which at least a couple of hundred at least are highly expected to be used)? -- /Jonas Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
