Hi. I wrote: > Is it possible to prune some (most) of the old versions from > http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks/index.html#midialsa
Hisham wrote: > Older versions, in particular, are not problematic to keep around I know how CPAN are always encouraging their Perl programmers to delete old versions: Note: to encourage deletions, all of past CPAN glory is collected on http://history.perl.org/backpan/ basically to keep CPAN to a manageable size. > because who knows what dependencies people have in their > private repositories. As a downstream packager I've been > bitten a number of times when upstream decided to prune > their repos, so I think it's nicer to not erase history. I guess there's more of a backward-compatibility expectation in CPAN, so dependencies are almost always >= rather than == Of course, too much backward-compatibility is stagnation; I heard someone at a conf recently say the Python standard library is where modules go to die; death with honour. For luarocks, maybe when the webpage becomes too cluttered. then the old versions could be retired to a different page, or (fussier, but cute) put under a Javascript clickable like http://www.pjb.com.au/esperanto/index.html if you click on the "HTML-format" link ... > because they're evidently not the recommended file to use There are some bugs there that I wouldn't want to be judged by. > (and the tool picks the latest version by default). True :-) Thanks, Regards, Peter http://www.pjb.com.au p...@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
