Re: Proposal: support only one version of libraries

[Patrick von Reth]

+1


Cheers


Patrick



From: Cristian Oneț
Sent: ‎Saturday‎, ‎30‎ ‎August‎ ‎2014 ‎11‎:‎01
To: KDE on Windows





2014-08-30 5:45 GMT+03:00 Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com>:
> 2014-07-07 21:23 GMT-03:00 Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com>:
>> Currently many library packages in emerge contain rules in the .py
>> script to download multiple library versions, and there are
>> corresponding patches for all those versions. Sometimes those patches
>> are even identical.
>>
>> For example, assuan2 has download URLs, digests, and cmake patches for
>> 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, and 2.1.1. The 2.0.x versions date to 2011. Any
>> reason to keep them? I'd just delete everything except 2.1.1, which is
>> the default target.
>>
>> I hereby propose keeping only the latest version and deleting any old patches.

+1, having multiple versions only makes sense if we do some kind of
release management (track what's stable and what's not) but we don't
do that right now.

Regards,
Cristian

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