Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien
Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu writes:
On Wed, 22 May 2002 14:24:17 +0200, Kai
=?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?= said:
> Is it really so difficult? I'd guess the package maintainers know
> which versions are required. So they could put that in the Makefile.
The hypothetical maintainer of foo.el may know that foo-1.3 need bar-1.6,
and that foo-1.4 needs bar-1.6.5, but may not know that installing bar-1.7
screws his code up gloriously (usually because he departed after foo-1.3
was released).
Well, and then somebody (Alice) sends a bug report. And somebody else
(Bob) finds out about this conflict. Bob tells Alice about it.
In the future, Bob just needs to frob foo's Makefile, too.
Of course, this might not be practical. Instead, some other
maintainer will read the whole exchange and then frob foo's Makefile.
(In the end, foo should be fixed to cope with bar-1.7, anyway.)
kai
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