Jyri Virkki wrote, On 08/ 6/08 11:06 PM: > On Aug 5, 2008, at 1:17 AM, Sunanda Menon wrote: >> The Code Changes can be found at >> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~sunandam/6711903/ and the draft ARC case is > > The main question is why are you considering adding 5.1 in > addition to 5.0 instead of replacing it?
We intend to remove 5.0. However, with the jungle of dependants out there, not at the same time we add 5.1, but after say two months. But both 5.0 and 5.1 need to be able to exist independently, if for nothing else so give dependants a chance to respin without having everybody coordinate and come together the exact same second. :) Thus effectively two separate package bundles. And not to forget: end users may well want OS 2008.11 but not 5.1 quite yet, so 5.0 need to run nicely in parallel. <sidetrack:moderate> Coordinating a large and complex web of interdependencies can be, hm, "interesting" as the Chinese might put it. Been there, done that. </sidetrack> > As to the review, for most version upgrades where the tarball is > simply replaced by a newer version, the webrev will show the > relevant changes between the makefiles, install files and such. > > Here, since it's an all-new set of files I can't (conveniently) compare > whether anything important (besides the obvious like version number > string and such) has changed in these files, so not easy to review. > It'd be nice to provide diffs of all these files somewhere, so not > every reviewer needs to do it manually.. Agree. -- Lars
