On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:30:25 -0500, Shea Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/17/12 7:22 PM, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > > Is it just discouraged to package prerelease versions of software in > > general? If it's merely a question of stability then it shouldn't be a > > problem; the Emacs 24 pretest is very stable. > > I don't set the policies, but my thought would be: If there's a > significant reason (new feature, important bug fixes, vastly improved > performance, etc.) that all users of the package might benefit from a > prerelease, then package it, otherwise wait for the official release. > I'm not an emacs user, so I don't know what's different in the > prerelease version, but if there's a good reason I or someone else can > update the snapshot version in nixpkgs.
I'm using emacs and I'd also like to see prerelease versions of 24 in nix: - it's claimed to be very stable - easier to adapt config to changes - test addons (org and notmuch in my case) - integrated package manager - improved themeing By having prerelease versions of soon to be stable software in nix, we support people who provide addons or config in adapting them. I would not do it for every software we have in nix, but as long as there is one person actually using the prerelease and therefore updating in case of bugs, I think we should have it. That said, I'm happy to use and help in maintainting the prerelease expression. @Phil: btw. thank you for your great starter kit! -- Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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