On Monday 12 November 2007 12:40:42 Ed Bartosh wrote: > In this case I'd suggest to put both libraries to extras-devel and > tested for upgradeability together with applications. If some issues > will be found bug will be failed and hopefully fixed. Fixed library will > be uploaded to extras-devel and later to extras. Case solved. > I understand that this wouldn't work in 100% cases. But it's better than > force developers to build against old libraries. New libraries usually > bring not only bugs but also useful fixes and it might be that some > applications can't go to extras if they don't use new libraries.
So, I think that what you are suggesting is that Nokia effectively "Beta test" the new release using extras-devel (or maybe some other repos specifically for the task) so that developers can rebuild and test that installing their applications don't cause the sort of problem I have described. That would probably be an effective compromise that would give the advantages of bringing the latest libraries into use as quickly as possible while minimising risk. I like that solution, if Nokia agrees. >From a strict support point of view, of course, anyone who installs an application from extras and finds it breaks a Nokia application is on their own anyway. But it would be good to minimise the risk of such problems, particularly with applications installed from the extras repos. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
