From: Jookia <166291@gmail.com>
To: Nils Gillmann <niasterisk@grrlz.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnunet-gtk: adds --with-gnunet to configure-flags
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 05:30:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160309183047.GA15060@novena-choice-citizen.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fhbo6tz.fsf@grrlz.net>
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 07:16:08PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >> > Guix should provide a stable experience, but if stable means too
> >> > old to deliver a useable experience of an still in development
> >> > network, what do we suggest? I would not replace gnunet and
> >> > gnunet-gtk, I would just make gnunet-svn the default (gnunet will
> >> > default to gnunet-svn) and gnunet-0.10.1 will have to be
> >> > installed explicitly.
> >> The reply to my bug report said something similar. If version 0.10.1 is
> >> so old that upstream suggest taking the latest from SVN I suppose we
> >> should do this too.
> >
> > I would argue that if upstream cannot be bothered to make a stable release
> > every once in a while, this is not our business, unless there are dependent
> > packages that stop working.
> >
> > On the other hand, as I fear that the number of users of the current gnunet
> > is very limited, it probably does not hurt to update it with the version
> > number 0.10.1-1-xxx for some svn checkout xxx.
>
> I am currently working on it, see also my latest Email to
> guix-devel including the whys and tl;drs.
>
> > Andreas
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> ng
> personal contact: http://krosos.sdf.org
> EDN: https://wiki.c3d2.de/Echt_Dezentrales_Netz/en
Just to chime in, I think it's 'right' to package the 'stable' version by
default since from what I know that's the version Debian and other distros like
Parabola use by default. To have a version that by default breaks compatibility
would be sad.
Jookia.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-09 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-07 23:58 [PATCH] gnunet-gtk: adds --with-gnunet to configure-flags Nils Gillmann
2016-03-08 14:48 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-03-08 15:47 ` Jookia
2016-03-08 17:22 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-08 17:58 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-03-09 17:52 ` Andreas Enge
2016-03-09 18:16 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-03-09 18:30 ` Jookia [this message]
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