From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@centurylink.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: On packaging old versions of libraries
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:07:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170825070715.GA15679@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170824220643.3391820f@centurylink.net>
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:06:43PM -0500, Eric Bavier wrote:
> > I'm going to look into what is required to backport, but if I decided to
> > go the first route, I would probably use Guix. Would such a
> > contribution be accepted considering it packages older libraries, which
> > would add some cruft? At the least, I would have to compile CEGUI 0.7,
> > but that might need older versions of libraries itself to compile.
>
> I think this would be fine as long as there are no known security
> issues in those older libraries. The packages could even be private to
> the maryo chronicles package so that they are not available for users
> to install.
>
> FWIW my kids would love to play this game too. :)
This is why we need channels.
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-25 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-23 15:42 On packaging old versions of libraries Mike Gerwitz
2017-08-23 22:20 ` Roel Janssen
2017-08-24 4:35 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-08-25 3:06 ` Eric Bavier
2017-08-25 7:07 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2017-08-25 3:27 ` Mark H Weaver
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