No dia 18 de Novembro de 2010 17:09, Philip Brown <[email protected]> escreveu: > On 11/17/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <[email protected]> wrote: >> No dia 16 de Novembro de 2010 18:52, Philip Brown <[email protected]> >> escreveu: >>> Since people had recently already submitted packages longer than 20 >>> chars, I thought there was no need for further coordination :-} >> >> Can we coordinate these kinds of changes in the future? >> > > I'm usually all about coordination :) So sure thing. > I'm just not sure what you think we missed out on, with this particular case. > > You couldnt make the change on 'your end', until the database and my > registration scripts were changed. But i'm not sure what the problem > is in the other direction. I dont see what we "lost", if the gar-side > changes were made a week after the database change, as compared to the > same day.
You could imagine a maintainer who reads the announcement, updates his local copy of the repository, attempts to build a package, and gets an error message that his 21 character long package name exceeds the allowed length. Confusion: if he can't create such package, why the announcement? If the announcement is real, why can't he? I don't know if this scenario actually happened, but chances are it did. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
