As I understood this the discussion was about having something like SUNWimagick in spec-files and a newer version in SFE, am I wrong here?
Darren. Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > 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 >
