From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [Patch] ruby-byebug@9.0.5 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:11:24 -0400 Message-ID: <20160610151124.GA29071@jasmine> References: <87shwyxmnv.fsf@mailerver.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <57500842.5070000@uq.edu.au> <5750246F.5080006@uq.edu.au> <8760tngwlh.fsf@mailerver.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <20160605214359.GC2928@jasmine> <874m97gv39.fsf@mailerver.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60369) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bBO60-00021Z-RJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:11:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bBO5x-0000dO-FK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:11:40 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:51589) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bBO5w-0000cE-57 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:11:37 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874m97gv39.fsf@mailerver.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Matthew Jordan Cc: guix-devel On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 05:54:34PM -0400, Matthew Jordan wrote: > > > In general, Guix handles this just fine. But somebody has to maintain > > all those versions ;) We often suggest that if one user needs some old > > version of a package, they maintain the package privately. For example, > > using $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. > > Ah okay, that makes sense. Does this also also apply to compilers and > runtime environments? As I have two pachtes for the current versions of > node (JavaScript runtime), one is the reccomended version and the other > represents the latest stable version. There's no hard rule that allows us to keep multiple versions of compilers and runtimes. I think we keep those around for a variety of reasons: bootstrapping chains; many packages still require the old version; it was very difficult to make the package work so it's not reasonable to ask users to recreate and maintain the old versions themselves; etc.