Grobian wrote:
Good point. I have a Panther machine, but I must admit that I do not test everything on that machine. In that sense it would be nice if there were ppc-macos-10.3 and ppc-macos-10.4 keywords, as well as ppc-macos-progressive.
I think the cascaded profiles work well for standard vs. progressive installs. It would be quite the fight to get a new keyword for this sort of thing... I'd like to think there's a better solution than a keyword.
My opinion would be that we cannot claim to have something if there is noone that maintains it. I think this would effectively mean that 10.3 would be unsupported, or I would have to let my Panther box working very hard, but then I need my auto-testing idea to work, because I don't want to do it manual.
Maybe we need to start the process of acquiring a suite of test machines? Dual-booting may also be an option for some of us.
Normally, something first need to be tested. In this case I haven't. Maybe I'd better just give you the patches and let you deal with the bug instead of committing it. My bad, I was in doubt here, and reasoned that I didn't change anything to the code effectively.
No worries. I'm very much still learning as well. As far as I know, the only package which uses this particular library is dev-lisp/clisp and I'm the only user who cares about the package. If you broke something, you'll have me to answer to! :p
As you might have noticed, I'm some sort of new.
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At the moment I don't feel very comfortable and safe in doing what I do. This is mainly because of the many risks there are as you descibed here, I think.
This is a community supported project kept afloat by the spare time of people like yourself, j4rgon, and kito. The bottom line is no one has taken the time to work out a solution to these kinds of problems (and maybe there is no good solution) so new people rightly feel lost. I still feel quite lost myself. I like to ask (good) questions in the hopes that they will encourage fruitful discussion. I don't have any answers but I'd be honored to work with other devs and the community to come up with good solutions.
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