Re: Issues for Yosemite.

Daniel Johnson <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Jun 2014 07:40:23 -0400
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On Jun 29, 2014, at 11:42 PM, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:

> We've been discussing on IRC whether we want a new tree for 10.10's 
> packages and no upgrade from 10.9, or to allow an in-place upgrade from 
> 10.9 and keep their packaging in a common tree.
> 
> One idea that came up was to have a 10.9 tree and to move 10.9-specific 
> package descriptions to that.  The reason we didn't create a 10.9 tree 
> at the time it was released was that we were still supporting 10.6, and 
> there was a lack of enthusiasm for having to deal with three trees.  On 
> the other hand, there is a fairly large divergence between 10.9 and 
> 10.8/7, and early signs indicate that the divergence between 10.9 and 
> 10.10 won't be large (at least initially) so having a common tree and an 
> upgrade option makes some sense to me.
> 
> We'd do this by having a CVS freeze, apart from generating the 10.9 
> tree, and then releasing a new fink for 10.9 which uses the real 10.9 
> directory instead of putting in a 10.9->10.7 symlink.  We'd probably 
> update for 10.7 and 10.8, too, to add 10.9 to the SelfupdateCVSTrees 
> list.  Once that's out we'd unfreeze CVS, and folks would need to 
> remember to update for 10.9 and 10.8/10.7 separately.  We could actually 
> do this at any point rather than waiting for Yosemite's release.
> 
> Any thoughts on this idea?

That sounds reasonable. 10.7-10.8 have the same perl major version, as do 10.9-10.10 so that seems as good a cut off as any. :) Also we have the libstdc++ vs. libc++ transition there.

Daniel

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