-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Aaron Bentley <[email protected]> wrote: >> It seems like a major use case will be "build this branch using this >> packaging branch". If we had a UI that just provided that, what >> percentage of our users would still need more? > > I think people need (and want) more than just the packaging branch. > For example, they'd want to specify the distroseries as well
Doesn't a user actually want to specify a list of distroseries you want to build for? And don't you need a recipe per distroseries as currently formulated? If so, our UI should let them choose a list of distroseries and create as many recipes as necessary behind the scenes. > by which > time, the concept of a "recipe" for your build makes sense (ie. you've > got a few ingredients). I don't think that follows. Recipes are only somewhat specific to packaging. Providing a UI that was less generic and more domain-specific could be quite helpful. > On top of that, I don't see how we can guess a > valid deb version (as it depends on what's been uploaded to the PPA > before etc. Surely we know what's been uploaded to a PPA before? Anyhow, that's a domain-specific thing, not necessarily a recipe thing. > And we can't always know the package name from the branch > either [1].) I thought the debian control directory specified the package name. > And even if the above was feasible, we'd still need to create a recipe > to do the build Absolutely. I never meant to suggest otherwise. > and so when the same user comes back next time to > build that branch again, we'd want to give them the option of > selecting their previous recipe rather than silently creating another > one. If we're not exposing recipes, why should the user care about duplication? Yes, it would be nice to remember past settings, but again, that doesn't require recipes per se. Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktrDKUACgkQ0F+nu1YWqI0YUwCeOBhCp7lvQdHE4W/0zHFCUjKx XqQAn1Kp8GZJfJmkvo5s26S49kw5Y4th =ggkb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
