Re: Removal of old versions, and mingw-get
Erwin Waterlander <waterlan-qWit8jRvyhVmR6Xm/[email protected]>
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Op 30-1-2013 14:41, Earnie Boyd schreef: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Erwin Waterlander <waterlan-qWit8jRvyhVmR6Xm/[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There are now 6 versions of mingw32-dos2unix and msys-dos2unix. Should >> we keep all these versions or can we remove the old ones? On Cygwin it >> is custom to keep only the previous version, and keep only more if there >> are good reasons. >> > Keep them is the SF mantra. > >> I also wonder if mingw-get can deal with removal of old versions, if I >> would clean up. What happens if I remove old versions (remove tar files >> from FILES and cleanup XML catalogue), and users have a local old xml >> file? Obviously users have to run "ming-get update". What if they don't >> do that? > Mingw-get can install a requested older version so the catalogues need to stay. > OK, then we keep them. -- Erwin Waterlander http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan