On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:38:12AM +0100, Trygve Laugstøl wrote: > What is the gain? The package tools already have a strong concept of > versions, why not support multiple versions at the same time? I'm all > for backwards compatibility and all, but I really need a feature like > this so I don't mind running my tools with a special flag (might be nice > anyway as it indicates that I'm running development stuff).
Two things, just to hopefully bring people together on the same page: 1. no-one is proposing that our REGULAR trees (current, stable) have multiple versions. Just wanted to mention that as reassurance to some folks :-) 2. pkg-get already supports multiple versions to some degree. As mentioned previously, i believe it will prompt you for which one you want, though. As someone will probably not be initially aware that there even EXIST multiple versions (since normally, a big point of pkg-get is to INSULATE users from versions), I think that prompting is an important safty check. I might add an OPTION flag to pkg-get, to say "always pick latest", but I think the default behaviour will stay as "prompt if multiple versions" _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
