Hi, I'm going to try to get gnome-libs to build some snapshot-style packages from out of the CVS.
Where should we install this stuff? I was thinking we could put everything under /opt/dsp Where dsp = Debian Snapshots Project. Of course, dsp also stands for "digital signal processor". Do you think people will get confused? What do people think of using /opt? I think it's a better choice than putting things under /usr/local. And we don't want to put things in the FSSTND locations, because we want to be able to install these at the same time as the released Debian packages without causing conflicts. Also, how's this for a naming scheme? Regular Packages Snapshot Packages ---------------- ----------------- gnome-hello dsp-gnome-hello libgnome0 dsp-libgnome0 libgnome-dev dsp-libgnome-dev libgtkxmhtml0 dsp-libgtkxmhtml0 libgtkxmhtml-dev dsp-libgtkxmhtml-dev libzvt0 dsp-libzvt0 libzvt-dev dsp-libzvt-dev The idea is that both sets of packages can be installed at the same time. By having the 'dsp-' prefix at the beginning of the name, the packages have a nice sort order. Another issue that the recent Gnome freeze just brought up: now there are two branches of the CVS - a stable branch and an unstable branch. I'll follow the stable branch for now with my snapshots. But how should we handle the situation in the future where there are two branches we want to track? Cheers, - Jim
