Philip Brown wrote: > 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 :-)
Right. > 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" I would like such an option :) -- Trygve _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
