From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Woodcroft Subject: Re: Releasing 0.9.1 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 06:54:38 +1000 Message-ID: <56B7AF0E.90504@uq.edu.au> References: <87d1sbi827.fsf@gnu.org> <56B734FB.7000709@uq.edu.au> <877figwusz.fsf@elephly.net> <87lh6ws124.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54371) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSWM6-0005BA-73 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:54:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSWM3-0004A7-0o for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:54:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87lh6ws124.fsf@gnu.org> 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= , Ricardo Wurmus Cc: Guix-devel On 08/02/16 06:44, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> Ben Woodcroft writes: > [...] > >>> >[Ricardo] proposed recently to pass a package object instead of a >>> package name to =E2=80=98latest-release=E2=80=99. We should do that i= deally before this >>> patch goes in, or otherwise soon. >>> >>> Is there any update for this Ricardo? Do we just go ahead and use the >>> old style for the time being? >> Oh, I dropped the ball there. It=E2=80=99s very simple to do this, bu= t I don=E2=80=99t >> think I can do it today, I=E2=80=99m afraid. I can try to do it tomor= row, but I >> don=E2=80=99t think it should block the GitHub updater. >> >> I could easily patch the GitHub updater along with all the other >> updaters that would need to be adapted, so my vote is for using the ol= d >> style for now and switching to package objects soon thereafter. > Fine with me! > > Ben: can you post the latest version of the patch? Or was it already > OK? Not OK just yet, I'll resend, I hope today. Happy (Chinese) GNU year peoples. ben