On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I agree that the cost for versioned binaries are much less then the
> benefit that comes from it.
>

agreed.

> What I do think may cause an issue is signing of programs/packages. As
> versioned binaries should be a user option packages should not contain
> them but they should be created by SymlinkProgram. This causes the
> FileHash to be out of sync, forcing the user to resign the program if
> he/she should be able to verify it later. Of course this is no problem
> if versioned binaries are adopted throughout.
>

Why can't SymlinkProgram create version'ed symlinks in /S/L/E
directly?  That would avoid all signing/packaging issues and keep
/Programs/Foo/1.0/bin less cluttered (not a huge issue).


-- 
Carlo J. Calica
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