Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On Thu, 09 Nov 2006, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> NOTE: [RT] stands for 'random thoughts' and it's a tradition of the >> Cocoon community as a way to foster innovation and promote >> brainstorming. Anything said in an RT can be out of line, blue sky >> or even wako. That's a feature, not a bug. > > and I changed the subject because I'm responding to a side-note and > not the original RT 8-) > >> The dependency information links versions, not projects (this is >> where Gump got it wrong!). This is something that pretty much all >> package managers understand. For Gump, the 'project dependency' >> information can be inferred from the 'version dependency' >> information... but having that information allows Gump to act both >> as a nightly build system and as a continuous integration system. > > Gump really only wants to be a continuous integration system, not a > nightly build system. And as such, it must ignore the version > dependencies.
[this doesn't really belong here, but what the hell] > If a project doesn't want to be integrated against the latest version > of another project, that's a different issue - but probably only means > it shouldn't really be part of a Gump build anyway because Gump would > be the wrong system then. I rather strongly disagree. I want a gump that is useful for the project *and* for the project's upstream dependencies. The current gump creates social dynamics that are simply not working. -- Stefano.
