On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Stas Bekman wrote:
Randy Kobes wrote:
Yeah, well, the problem is that now there's no 1.99_11 binary on Winnipeg :( :)
At one point I tried keeping multiple versions. This becomes a bit complicated administratively, but more importantly, 99.9% of the time older versions have bugs that are fixed in the current version. This is the main reason I use the cvs version for the builds - however, I make sure that all, or at least the vast majority, of tests pass with a given build. So there's rarely a case of needing an older version, especially for something like mod_perl 2 which is in development.
May be we should keep the binary of the latest release and the cvs one? The cvs version may introduce bugs non-existing in the last release and may go unnoticed for quite some time, if 'make test' doesn't catch them. So if winFU is now a viable platform for production use of mod_perl 2.0 users will most likely be better off with the latest release and not the cvs version.
I'm not sure how ppm can handle that, though. Can it ignore the dev versions by some method similar to PAUSE (_ in the version number)?
That's a good point about the cvs vs last release ... ppm just downloads the name specified by the package, so we could make up two packages - "mod_perl" (the current official release), and "mod_perl-cvs", say.
Only if you really try to keep up with the cvs and make new releases let's say daily. Otherwise it'd be misleading if the cvs version doesn't match the binary. Therefore most likely you just want to call it mod_perl-dev, which doesn't guarantee that it's the very latest cvs.
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