Both SchoolTool 1.2 (we're just going to use traditional release numbering going forward, btw), and Ubuntu 2009.10 are due out next week.
In the past, when we've created a new version, we've updated all the packages for the previous releases of Ubuntu. If you're running Intrepid and you apt-get install SchoolTool, you get the latest version, not the one released for Intrepid. This particularly made sense since earlier versions of SchoolTool were essentially alphas and betas, and people shouldn't have been continuing to use them as more stable releases came out. Going forward, we need to stabilize the process, both because people won't want their production SchoolTool deployments unexpectedly updating to major new releases, and because as we move to being included in Ubuntu proper for Lucid Lynx, we've got to substantially rearrange the underlying packaging. So... this is all subject to change depending on what actually works, but... SchoolTool 1.2 will probably only be packaged (by us) for Ubuntu 2009.10. SchoolTool 1.4 will probably only be packaged (by us) for Ubuntu 2010.4 This leaves out the possibility of anyone else making packages for other versions, distros or OS's which anyone can do with some time and expertise. We're not going to do it because maintaining two or three differently organized versions of the same releases would be prohibitively time consuming and insanity inducing. What will this mean, in practice? When we release SchoolTool 1.2, you'll only get it if you upgrade the host system to Karmic -- Ubuntu 2009.10. When we release SchoolTool 1.4, you'll only get it if you upgrade the host system to Lucid -- Ubuntu 2010.4 Again, this is probably the desired behavior anyhow -- you don't want "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" to deliver a major revision with significant UI changes in the middle of the school year. The main case where this will cause some difficulty is if you're running SchoolTool on a server that has lots of other things going on for which you want to stay on an earlier version of Ubuntu, or if for some reason you only support an earlier version of Ubuntu. In either case, I'd recommend moving SchoolTool to a separate virtual machine. If you have comments, now would be a good time to air them... --Tom _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
