[csw-maintainers] Samba 4

[Peter FELECAN]

Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:39 PM, slowfranklin <slowfranklin at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Fast forward 2 years, fast forward 5 years. Versioned packages all
>> over the place. Eg possibly CSWsamba, CSWsamba4, CSWsamba5,
>> CSWsamba6. *blah*
>
> I don't see that we would ever have more than two at the same time
> spanning all our catalogs, certainly not in any single catalog.
>
> I think it's easier both for us and the users to have this system when
> it comes to the large titles like samba, apache and so on. No one
> would like to accidentally upgrade to something that is not compatible
> and for us to create complicated processes to avoid this is
> unnecessary work in my opinion.

We currently have python, python27, python3 and almost had python34 but
escaped that with an astute feint.

We had gcc2, gcc3 and gcc4 (well they were of my initiative) but they
are fortunately history.
-- 
Peter