On 20 February 2015 at 16:54, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote:
On 02/16/2015 04:17 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
I don't buy this argument wrt. Fedora.
Fedora is a rapid moving, forward looking distro, in which such
regressions should be fixed and not be worked around by compat-libs.
/*Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de*/ wrote on Mon, 16 Feb 2015
17:17:32 +0100:
On 02/16/2015 05:10 PM, Martyn Foster wrote:
On 16 February 2015 at 15:12, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at
mailto:kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote:
Christopher Meng wrote:
Maintaining several version
On 02/16/2015 08:17 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 02/16/2015 05:10 PM, Martyn Foster wrote:
On 16 February 2015 at 15:12, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at
mailto:kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote:
Christopher Meng wrote:
Maintaining several version of the same library is not easy as
Hi
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
I don't buy this argument wrt. Fedora.
Fedora is a rapid moving, forward looking distro, in which such
regressions should be fixed and not be worked around by compat-libs.
In ideal conditions, this is fine but in the real world,
On 02/16/2015 04:17 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
I don't buy this argument wrt. Fedora.
Fedora is a rapid moving, forward looking distro, in which such
regressions should be fixed and not be worked around by compat-libs.
That rather assumes that the only use for Fedora libraries is running
On 16 February 2015 at 15:12, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote:
Christopher Meng wrote:
Maintaining several version of the same library is not easy as you think,
basically once a developer wants to install version X while then another
people want to deploy things based on version
On 02/16/2015 05:10 PM, Martyn Foster wrote:
On 16 February 2015 at 15:12, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at
mailto:kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote:
Christopher Meng wrote:
Maintaining several version of the same library is not easy as you think,
basically once a developer wants
Christopher Meng wrote:
Maintaining several version of the same library is not easy as you think,
basically once a developer wants to install version X while then another
people want to deploy things based on version Y, how to crack this nut?
You can't just care about runtime.
Then you need
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 03:21:17PM +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:
Summary: I have a proposal to make it easier for maintainers to have
multiple versions of the same library in distro (by making it *naturally*
Mageia has something, but only meant to transition from one library
version to the
Who will review the new packages of these multiple versions? If we don't
review it I think it's horrible to carry obsolete stuffs.
Maintaining several version of the same library is not easy as you think,
basically once a developer wants to install version X while then another
people want to
On 02/14/2015 09:38 AM, Christopher Meng wrote:
Who will review the new packages of these multiple versions?
The process having been applied so far is the adding a compat-package.
In most cases this basically means to fork-off a package from an
existing package and have this package
Dear all,
I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I didn't find any.
Summary: I have a proposal to make it easier for maintainers to have
multiple versions of the same library in distro (by making it
*naturally* possible) (and with minimal maintenance overhead), and for
On Fri, 2015-02-13 at 15:21 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:
Dear all,
I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I didn't find any.
Summary: I have a proposal to make it easier for maintainers to have
multiple versions of the same library in distro (by making it
*naturally* possible)
Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:
It is possible, but it'll need package reviews for each new version.
Yes, it is a new package so a new review will be required (for either the
old-compat or the new-parallel-installable version).
this requirement for an additional review is likely non-negotiable.
Rex Dieter wrote:
Sure, additional documentation is always welcome. Are you willing to help
write some?
My apologies, re-reading the whole thread, including the initial post, I see
you did have a specific proposal... to which I responded separately to a
couple of points (but otherwise, a
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:21:17 +0330
Hedayat Vatankhah hedayat@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I didn't find any.
...snip...
Proposal: let's make it possible to have multiple versions of the
same library installed, as far as their .so
/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same
library installable
Dear all,
I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I didn't find any.
Summary: I have a proposal to make it easier for maintainers to have multiple
versions of the same library in distro (by making it *naturally
Am 13.02.2015 um 21:42 schrieb Hedayat Vatankhah:
I'm not sure if things will be (much) worse than the current situation.
Maintainers already do maintain multiple versions of the same library,
and also the upgrade path from a Fedora release to the next should work.
My assumption was that the
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