Re: [PATCH] gnunet-gtk: adds --with-gnunet to configure-flags

[Jookia <166291@gmail.com>]

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
> >
> >
> >
> 
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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.