Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > But I don't think one should produce packages that one cannot test.
Absolutely. But... > That's why I don't like this whole variant thing. That seems kind of orthogonal. Variants make it easier for the Maintainer to maintain multiple variants (in the conceptual, not Fink sense) of a package. It relieves what was becoming (became?) an unscalable mess of -pmXXX (and -pyXXX and -rbXXX, etc.) packages. Do you really believe that all those modules were tested with each perl version? Having a separate .info file for each variant makes it difficult for a Maintainer to keep variants in sync. It's too easy to forget to change one Depends package, or make a typo when applying the same tweak to a new revision of several files. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
