On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 4:00 PM Marcel Telka <mar...@telka.sk> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 03:18:29PM +0200, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > > I do not understand the need for obsoleting the entire package and > removing > > all the files instead of updating on the go. > > > > Could you explain the motivation? > > There is no particular need. It is just simpler to obsolete than to > update. And since there is no known consumer, then the obsoletion is > the obvious option chosen. > > > To me this seems a bit of overhead, like removing the mkdocs, cython, > numpy > > packages completely from the tree instead of updating them. > > Feel free to create PRs to get them back. > > > We therefore lose track of what was in the tree and people may start from > > scratch all over again. > > > > Maybe you intend to provide some level of automation later? > > Maybe. If I find it easy to do I'll do so, but I've no immediate plan > to do so. > > > An earlier heads-up before starting to remove everything could have been > > nice to have a chance to update a few components in advance and avoid the > > mumbo-jumbo. > > Sorry. I try to do my best. Nothing is perfect. > Sure, just at least a few days would be fine. Some of us cannot check the ML on a daily basis. > > Anyway, an earlier update/rebuild of those packages for non-EOLed python > would be nice from you before you left them fall out of support and be > surprised that they are disappearing. > > Sorry, talking is easy. > You are probably using this argument with the wrong person (you can look at the git history for example) but fair enough, I do not like talking for nothing either, just a discussion now and then to keep consistency across all the participants. > > > Thank you. > > -- > +-------------------------------------------+ > | Marcel Telka e-mail: mar...@telka.sk | > | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | > +-------------------------------------------+ > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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