[csw-maintainers] Hudson

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Philip Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:38:12AM +0100, Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
>> What is the gain? The package tools already have a strong concept of 
>> versions, why not support multiple versions at the same time? I'm all 
>> for backwards compatibility and all, but I really need a feature like 
>> this so I don't mind running my tools with a special flag (might be nice 
>> anyway as it indicates that I'm running development stuff).
> 
> Two things, just to hopefully bring people together on the same page:
> 
> 1. no-one is proposing that our REGULAR trees (current, stable) have
>    multiple versions.   Just wanted to mention that as reassurance to some
>   folks :-)

Right.

> 2. pkg-get already supports multiple versions to some degree.
>   As mentioned previously, i believe it will prompt you for which one you
>   want, though.
> 
>   As someone will probably not be initially aware that there even
>   EXIST multiple versions (since normally, a big point of
>   pkg-get is to INSULATE users from versions), I think that prompting
>   is an important safty check.
> 
>   I might add an OPTION flag to pkg-get, to say "always pick latest", but
>   I think the default behaviour will stay as "prompt if multiple versions"

I would like such an option :)

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Trygve