On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 04:18:32PM -0500, chm wrote:
> While it _seems_ simple to just add it into
> the current "kitchen sink" PDL has, the reality
> is that if PDL were split into a core distribution
> and a number of other, separate, distributions
> corresponding to the external dependencies, we
> would be *much* better off:
>
> (1) The core would already be 100% ported since
> [ ... ]
> (4) For similar reasons, having the PDL-Book-0.0.1
With my Debian Developer's hat on (those points mainly refer to the 'bleeding
edge' of debian development, i.e. testing/unstable):
(5) a problem with a single dependency would not kick all of pdl
and all packages it depends on from our testing branch,
which has happened recently due to portability problems with
plplot.
(6) Less problems with SONAME transitions, as only the relevant interface
module packages would need to be updated.
(7) Easier/more reliable way to automatically create package dependency lists
(each interface module depends on the corresponding library packages). As
mentioned recently on this list, the dependency list of debian's pdl
package is a bit long; I have to do the splitting into depends, suggests
and recommends manually, that's maybe why a bit too much slipped
through... this would be a lot easier if we had a 'core' with minimal
external dependencies and interface distributions.
--
c u
henning
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