On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:30:40AM -0700, Darren Kirby wrote: > > > Well, I'm the upstream author, and _I_ think there should be different > > > (ie: newer) version offered. Good enough? > > > > No, not good enough, as that doesn't matter at all. All that matters is, > > what's in the tree. And the latest stable version is 0.8, no matter what > > you think. The question remains: Why should a different version be offered? > Sorry Alexander, I just don't get where you're going with this. Version 0.8 > was released September 27, 2004! There have been 4 major new releases since > then, which include many bug fixes, and new and improved features. 0.8 is old > and busted, 0.9.3 is the new hotness!
Guys, Just to prevent the heat from escalating, may I offer my observation that the two of you seems to be arguing about completely different things? Alexander (and I, likewise) probably misunderstood Darren's question from the start: when he posted, I thought his expectation that "emerge dir2ogg" should bring in a newer version than what was offered was a lack of understanding of how the portage tree works (well, some of my friends do actually think that the package management system [aptget, rpm, portage, etc.] would actually be smart enough to automatically go on the internet and find and install the latest version of a program, so I wouldn't put any misconception past human capacity). But it seems clear to me now that Darren is actually asking about whether it is polite to give the devs a gentle nudge, asking them to remove an old, buggy version of software from the portage tree and add/stablize newer, updated versions (and how to go about doing so if it is polite). I am actually curious about the same thing: some of the packages that I use are also a year or two out of date, for the most part I can get around it by using overlays and third-party ebuilds, and I am making an effort to learn how to write ebuilds, but it would be nice to see those ebuilds committed to the official tree. W -- Willie W. Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
