Harry was asking about spec-files-extra. We don't use branches there. Laca
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 08:37 +0000, Darren Kenny wrote: > We have a stable vs devel branch for Vermillion already - what is the harm of > integrating the latest version (as is defined to be needed) into the devel > branch (trunk). > > If and OSR or ARC review is needed to bring this into Nevada proper, then it > should be flagged and done prior to integration to the stable branch - isn't > this how we work right now? > > Darren. > > Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > > Hi Harry, > > > > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:25 +0800, Harry Lu wrote: > >> A little OT, I was thinking whether we should enable people to put > >> latest development version into SFE, too. > >> > >> Maybe we could have a stable branch as we did for spec-files? > >> > >> What do you think? > > > > It makes sense, but it's not quite as easy as in the case of GNOME. > > The schedules of the various components are different and so they > > move from devel to stable at different points in time and it's > > difficult to pick a set of packages that will work together. > > For example if pkg A in devel requires the devel version of pkg B, > > but pkg C only works with the stable version of pkg B. It all depends > > on how stable the interfaces are. OTOH, I'm sure many packages won't > > even have devel versions. So we can give this a try but people need > > to be careful with the devel packages. > > > > Laca > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > desktop-discuss mailing list > > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
