Re: Contribute or create a channel?

[Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>]

Hi Ricardo,
> I think it would be preferable to have one LTS version in Guix.
Okay, that's a clear statement.

> whether to grant you commit rights to handle these upgrades
> by yourself.

Well, I already have commit rights :-) Anyhow the review period is a bit 
hindering, esp. for bug-fixes.


>> OTOH in Guix, maintaining several version seems laborious.
> What makes you say this?  What exactly is the obstacle here?

The only way I know for handling several versions of the same package is 
what Saku Laesvuori described: Adding a new variable for each of these 
versions, possibly making the older version inherit from the new one. 
This means moving quite some code on every new version. Done this for 
quite some rust-packages and it i quite laborious and hard to automate. 
And for Tryton we have about 200 packages and growing.

When using branches (in a channel) one would just checkout that branch, 
automatically apply the patches and commit. If the version is no longer 
supported, simply stop applying updates on that branch.

Maybe using one file per release (and accept duplicate code) would be a 
suitable workaround.

-- 
Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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