RE: BUG: Wrong file on package

I'd release *both*, fixes package and the whole tarball with the fixes
included, so the future envolution-users get the most recent
bug-fixed-release.

Just my 2cc.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Kindley [mailto:ckindley-/Nmu/[email protected]] 
> Sent: viernes, 06 de septiembre de 2002 6:07
> To: Envol-dev
> 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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