Re: BUG: Wrong file on package

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 22:51, Mark Chaney wrote:
> Well, make sure u fix the full package too. Because of people like me with
> several Encompass sites that I have not upgraded yet. Waiting for bugs to
> get squashed first =P
> 
> -MACscr
> 
This was one of the main complaints people had about PN...instead of
releasing just the fixes they released an updated tarball or zip.(there
at the start of 713 they changed this)

So when people wanted to apply the fixes they had to try and figure out
which files changed, but of course this was difficult because they had
to sort through the whole package again. You would think a change log
would have been enough.

At any rate there is precedent in open source development to release
errata packages to apply instead of repackaging the original release.
All the major Linux distributions do it this way. All of the errata of
course goes into the next version release (for example Envolution
1.0.1), but the original package of 1.0.0 is updated via the errata
package. Instructions will be included.

Of course this can be discussed again on the list to see what people
want to do. But personally I support the errata package method so as to
keep continuity and simplicity.

There was a story at PN about the idea of packaging just the fixes
versus the whole release here:

http://news.postnuke.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2018&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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