Right on, Mr. Hoffman! This is definitely the way to do it. jeff
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Tom Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
