On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:17:41AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:15:31 -0600 > "Brian Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know any developers that work that way. The old-fashioned way of > > buliding software (download the source and blindly compile against the > > current versions of whatever is currently installed) is a very poor > > practice. Almost all of the developers I know are very careful to build > > against specific versions of specific packages. That is the only realistic > > way to handle security and compatibility. > > It would seem that those developers have given up on any kind of > control of the installed system, replacing it by completely > disconnecting the build environment from the rest of the system. Most > of the developers I know are equally picky about the versions they > build against - the just insist that those version be the ones > installed on the system, so they can build and test against them > without having to worry about some part of the system finding the > wrong version.
Whoa. You want to build software that will run on end-user systems, yes? Do you want that software to use existing functionality on the installed end-user syste, or to use private copies? If the latter: why? If the former, then how can you insist on specific versions of the things that you count on the OS to deliver, as opposed to specific versions of the OS or specific versions of pkgs delivered by the OS vendor/maintainer? Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
