-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/15/10 1:33 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Alexander Hansen > <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If we were to decide to give fink the ability to do checkouts from >> repositories, from a support standpoint a scheme that uses the current >> pull svn will be harder to debug than a scheme which checks out a >> defined revision number. In the latter case, a developer can just try >> to build/install a package as usual to confirm a problem, and I don't >> see that as particularly easy if packages build against current svn. > > Should we be aware of packages that have lots of svn updates, > resulting in constant building of packages? > > - Koen.
I'd also consider that as an argument against building against whatever's current automatically. What I had in mind in the per-revision scheme (based on an earlier discussion on this list that I couldn't find--at least I think it was here) would be that the package description file would specify a fixed revision, along the lines of: Source: svn:<appropriate repo syntax to be determined> CheckoutRevision: 10 to check out svn revision 10 of the package. The maintainer would update the CheckoutRevision at their discretion. This would be more or less the same as what we're currently doing for but with the added ability to do checkouts from repositories directly rather than making up snapshots. In that case the build burden is pretty much the same as now. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvHUPsACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ88zgCfQf2+97oqTjLn97X+Y2FsM/DT Z2AAn0N3sOY5LUAFiffnMV2yd0JO4UM3 =dwEV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
