From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Jordan Subject: Re: [Patch] ruby-byebug@9.0.5 Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:54:34 -0400 Message-ID: <874m97gv39.fsf@mailerver.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9g1a-0007XB-7r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:56:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9g1W-0003PW-5X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:56:01 -0400 Received: from forward1j.cmail.yandex.net ([5.255.227.19]:39571) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9g1U-0003Nf-QP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:55:58 -0400 In-reply-to: <20160605214359.GC2928@jasmine> 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel > 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. Although I have not submitted them yet. Rsepectfully, -- Matthew Jordan Sent with my mu4e