On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 05:39:06 -0600 Daniel Goller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | considering you called the suggestion "really really stupid insane | absurd", it seems to be just another hefty ciaranm comment/insult w/o | any constructive criticism
Well, think about what you're suggesting. A change to the einfo messages displayed by, say, vim-plugin.eclass leading to a version bump for every single app-vim package? Yeah, right. | "Version specific code is already doable with versionator. The | eclasses that need this do it already" Please learn to quote properly and not top post. It avoids that kind of problem. | if finding a problem involves finding a particular version in cvs, | then not all that need it use it, so use the more technical sound | version of taking care of versioned eclasses, dont get personal if you | know of a technologically enforcable "smart way" of doing it, say it, | dont' ridicule, be constructive | | if all that need it used it, then foo-x.y-rz would still work and only | foo-x.y-rp was broken, no cvs fishing involved No technological solution can possibly be adequate (there's even a proof for that). The correct way to do it is through developer education, not insane technological hackarounds. QA tools can at best only provide suggestions, and they can only catch certain kinds of errors. repoman isn't an alternative to skilled developers. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
pgpomxc0BaRhO.pgp
Description: PGP signature
