Re: [ANNOUNCE] Unsupported Package Directory in CVS
|--==> "drv" == Didier Verna <didier(a)xemacs.org> writes:
drv> Steve Youngs wrote:
>.../packages/unsupported/$developer-name/$package-name
drv> This gives me an idea: wouldn't it be a nice place to put
drv> official packages, but in beta test, for people to try them
drv> before incorporation into the main package hierarchy ?
Possibly, but my intention was that this directory would be used for
packages that we don't (yet) distribute. I'd really like to keep the
unsupported and official packages separate.
Maybe I could create a .../packages/beta/$package-name hierarchy. But
I don't like that idea because:
(a) It would conceivably double the size of the packages
repository (currently > 65Mb uncompiled, > 100Mb
compiled).
(b) I can envisage all kinds of problems with the "commit to
beta -> upgrade to stable -> release to pre-release ->
release" process.
I'm not suggesting that we can't have stable/unstable package
repositories. It's just that it will be reasonably tricky to
maintain them.
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