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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-pypump
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:17:57 -0700
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To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:41:28 -0400
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 04:07:11PM -0700, Dylan Jeffers wrote:
> > > The latest upstream version 0.7. Is there a reason not to use the
> > > latest version in this case?  
> > 
> > For my immediate purposes, I need pypump 0.6, since thats the
> > version used in my projects. Since the versions are quite
> > different, maybe we include both of them?  
> 
> I think we should package the latest version, at least.
> 
> Maybe we could also package 0.6 with a package 'python-pypump-0.6'
> that inherits from python-pypump. Or, you could keep that inherited
> python-pypump-0.6 in a private package repo, and use
> GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.
> 
> I'd prefer the latter option. I don't think we have a precedent of
> adding old releases, although we do sometimes keep them around for
> compatibility. But I could be mistaken.
> 
> What do people think we should do?

Yes I agree with the second alternative as well.

Dylan