Re: DarwinPorts 1.3.1

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:02:39PM +0900, Paul Guyot wrote:
> 
> Le 2 août 06 à 12:41, Charlie Allom a écrit :
> 
> >On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:25:57PM -0700, paul beard wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>Perhaps the CVS tree needs to reflect the reality of a STABLE branch
> >>that doesn't include enough changes to warrant a release tag but
> >>still contains incremental improvements that users needs.
> >
> >I would love this model. I don't mind stable changes at all - and we
> >would get more user testing that way ;) and easier to then fix those
> >problems as they crop up.
> 
> It's a good idea. However, considering our development work and the  
> size of the user & developer bases, I think this will only work if:
> - selfupdate is modified to allow users to get -current updates
> - dports/ is branched too, with a -current and a stable tree
> - we use -current exactly as we use HEAD today, i.e. with any non- 
> radical change, with features and bugfixes alike.

yes - ala fink: allowing users to hand edit their configuration to
provide unstable changes, instead of the (sliding) stable release.

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