On 11/10/06, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stefan Bodewig wrote: > If a project doesn't want to be integrated against the latest version > of another project, that's a different issue - but probably only means > it shouldn't really be part of a Gump build anyway because Gump would > be the wrong system then. I rather strongly disagree.
I want a gump that is useful for the project *and* for the project's
upstream dependencies.
The current gump creates social dynamics that are simply not working. I'm not used to gump, but I both understand how interesting the concept is and how limited it is in real life IMO. Trying to build the latest of everything together (if I understand Gump philosophy correctly) is interesting but you frequently need to be able to tune the dependencies to be able to know if your project is in good shape or not. With current Gump the information that your project does not build can be related to something you do not control, and this is a problem. So I share the opinion of Stefano that a tool able to see dependencies with finer details and control over versions would really be interesting, and cannot yet be found in the open source space. As I said in another mail, I find this so much interesting that I would be glad to work on the subject (even if my free time for now is hard to find). Xavier --
Stefano.
