On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 08:45 -0400, James Antill wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 07:46 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > seth vidal wrote: > > > I think we'll need to preserve compat with older repos for quite a > > > while. > > > > > Yes, we can add the new stuff, but we must be able to work with repos > > missing this extra metadata. > > both in yum and in yum-utils. me might want to implement somthing like > > repos.findSourceRepos and repos.findDebuginfoRepos in yum base so we > > can handle the compabillity in a central place > > Yeh, my plan was to have a YumBase().autoEnableSourceRepos() that would > do what yumdownloader setupSourceRepos() does now, but then use the tags > if the repos. support it. > > > so each yum-utils tool don't need to handle the compabillity. > > > I'd hold off on putting the above changes into effect until the F11 > > > devcycle is underway. > > > > > Agree, to invasive to add before the F11 dev cycle, maybe a new 3.3.X > > branch is needed, but that leads to another discussion about > > how we handle branches, new features etc. > > Today we use the 3_2_X for everything, master is totally broken. > > maybe we should rethink it. > > Yeh, Seth and I have talked about that a bit ... as we still need the > API break, but we want to try and minimize the impact (and make sure > master doesn't become the forgotten branch again). > > > future : (yum 4.0, API breakage etc.) F12 or F13 > > unstable : (yum 3.3.x new features, but API stable) F11 > > stable : (yum 3.2.x, bug fixes, translation updates. ) F10,F9,F8 > > One idea we'd had was to just continue with 3.2.x, but add all the new > API bits in a compatible way (moving the callers as we go) ... and then > at some point when we are happy, call it 4.0.x, merge with master and > delete the stuff noone is using the same day and continue on with that. >
We could also iterate up to a 3.3->3.4. Glomming on bits as we go. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
