On Mar 26, 2013, at 11:27 07, Nathan Steele wrote: > Sure would be nice to be able to install an old version from the repo's, > though I can possibly understand why Fred wouldn't want that.
Been there, tried that... The difficulty with multiple versions in the same repository is that (naive) users will then try mixing different versions together at the same site. In the past, that was a receipe for a corrupted database. While recent RD versions do sanity checking to prevent the system from working with a skewed DB version (and hence avoid that outcome), the result is still a site with one or more workstations that "just don't work" with no (obvious to them) reason. While I grant that there are occasionally situations where installing past versions is useful, it's something that requires careful management by an administrator who understands the dangers and implications --i.e. not something that you really want in a repository that can be easily accessed in a point and click fashion. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, | | lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of | | their C programs. | | -- Robert Firth | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
