From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@fabula.de Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y? Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:14:46 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021114171446.GA15521@www> References: <87u1imiste.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <871y5qecfp.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <873cq5ti1f.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037301121 20340 80.91.224.249 (14 Nov 2002 19:12:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:12:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18CPPE-0005Hw-00 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:12:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18CPMg-0000OF-00; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:09:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18CNMs-0007Qd-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:01:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18CNMp-0007Q6-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:01:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.22.192.104] (helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18CNMo-0007Q2-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:01:22 -0500 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 5002) id 79F8F14DC8; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:14:46 +0100 (CET) Original-To: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1705 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1705 On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:33:05PM -0500, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > Rob Browning writes: > [...] > But if you ask my current uninformed opinion, and given the current > poor status of UNIX tool for handling this kind of dependencies, I'd > say I prefer separating micro versions and recompiling things between > micro version releases. :) ...which of course kills the idea of a binary distribution, in practical terms. You can't install package X without upgrading library Y by two micro steps -- otoh the vital package Z depends too strongly on micro (probably it's not serious, but do you know?) version. You see things of this kind in Debian. OTOH distros are becoming so huge that it's more and more of a pain to create frozen self-consistent `versions'. What to do? (I think Rob's fight to ``hide'' micro version as much as possible is a laudable step in this direction). Regards -- tomas _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel