Re: IMPORTANT: It's time to migrate from CVS (your input needed)

On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:03:41 +0000, Nick Morrott wrote:

[...]
> I am not a fan of the recent trend of versioning individual libraries
> within the project - it creates another developer overhead to
> maintain, and when versions are not incremented it looks as though an
> out-of-date version of a library has been included.

I concur. 
It's only useful where people download just one element (e.g. grabber) but not the associated changed dependencies (e.g. amended library), which can lead to spurious support tickets. If people always use a package manager then that issue goes away.

Geoff
 

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