On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:59:25AM +0200, Thomas Lotterer wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2003, Matthias Kurz wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 07:56:54PM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > - What criterias does one have to use to decide what version of OpenPKG
> > > >   is required (openpkg >= 20020206, or what) ?
> > > 
> > > For this there is the HISTORY document in the "openpkg" package
> > > source tree. It lists all releases of "openpkg" together with a small
> > > description what happended. We use this as our reference for "openpkg"
> > > dependencies.
> > 
> > Cough. ... Cough. ... May i step in, here ?  I do not depend on it, but
> > could you find a better place to flag contributions than just the CVS log ?
> > 
> A separate document will become a maintenance nightmare and
> is very likely to become out of sync quickly. But wait -

Yes, you're right.

> good news. We also have a neat web page that lists it. See
> http://cvs.openpkg.org/getfile?f=openpkg-src/openpkg/HISTORY :-)
> Additional information can be found using the timeline feature, see
> http://cvs.openpkg.org/timeline?x=1&c=2&dm=1&px=openpkg-src/openpkg

That is a nice feature. I was about to recommend a ChangeLog in addition
to HISTORY...

> This version check should be easy for a RELEASE. For CURRENT, i agree,
> it is a more complex task to find out the ultimate version. There is a
> pragmatic approach to this. Just take the openpkg version you used when
> you created the package. ...

I will look into it. 


   (mk)

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