Re: BUG: Wrong file on package

Yeah,i know, i just remember times that they have released fixes and then u
notice that they didnt put the fixes in the original release too. Just
making sure it gets done =P

-MACscr

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Kindley" <ckindley-/Nmu/[email protected]>
To: "Envol-dev" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: [envdev] 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=2
018&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
>
> Zoom
>
>
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