From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Any opposition to changing share/guile/X.Y.Z to share/guile/X.Y? Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:53:28 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87k7jhqm9z.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> 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 1037296706 30959 80.91.224.249 (14 Nov 2002 17:58:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:58:26 +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 18COG0-00082q-00 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:58:24 +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 18CEWt-0001KT-00; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 02:35:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18C3cM-0004p3-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18C3cJ-0004os-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: from n66644228.ipcdsl.net ([66.64.4.228] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18C3Zo-0004Ez-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:53:29 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3347377DF; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:53:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2273024E72; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:53:28 -0600 (CST) Original-To: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se In-Reply-To: (Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "13 Nov 2002 14:33:05 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) 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:1704 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1704 Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > I have no other argument. Also, it is "OK" with me to do as you want, > because I haven't the time to think about it. > > 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. :) Well it certainly would fix the problem in some sense, but unless we're going to make guile "Depends: gcc", and switch to a "compile on install" packaging arrangement (don't think I haven't considered that -- actually having gcc around all the time might open up some "interesting" compilation options), I suspect we might have a revolt from the users tracking Debian unstable if all guile packages broke with every minor release :> Though I guess if we put the full version in the lib names and in *everything* else (like libguile-1.6.1.so, libguile-srfi-srfi-4-v-1.6.0.so etc.) then we could just eat a lot of disk space rather than break things with new releases, but I also suspect that the first time one of the other Debian maintainers noticed that they had all of the guile-1.6.1 guile-1.6.2 guile-1.6.3 guile-1.8.1 guile-1.8.2 packages installed at the same time (due to leftovers), I might have to think fast if I wanted to avoid a good trouncing :> -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel