Hi, Am 14.03.2012 um 18:10 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński: > We've kept the stable release for people to use, calling it backward > compatibility. But it's not obvious to users that it's dead. We've > written this in a couple places, but in practice many people will not > notice, and try to use stable, which will most likely give a bad > impression of the state of the project. > > Therefore, I'd like to propose this radical change: Rename it to > 'stable-dead'. It will break what we called backward compatibility, > but here, it's a meaningless concept. Consider these points: > > - people who'll try to update from stable, will get errors > - but there will be no updates anyway > - people who are new, will see that it's dead and won't subscribe to > it, unless they want to subscribe to a dead catalog > > So I see no real loss in doing that, and I see a gain in that the > death of stable will be impossible to miss. > > With time, we'll introduce stable by creating a symlink from 'stable' > to 'dublin', but not earlier than 6 or 12 months after breaking the > old 'stable' directory. > > Thoughts?
As I outlined during the camp I would favor a solution where pkgutil tries to download some kind of message-of-the-day from the catalog and display it. We can add such a notice in stable/ while moving all packages to a different directory. This gives everybody the chance to relocate without breakage. Best regards -- Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896 _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
