From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 102250 invoked by alias); 21 Jun 2016 15:32:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 102235 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jun 2016 15:32:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1357, H*MI:sk:2016062 X-HELO: mail-qk0-f172.google.com Received: from mail-qk0-f172.google.com (HELO mail-qk0-f172.google.com) (209.85.220.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:32:27 +0000 Received: by mail-qk0-f172.google.com with SMTP id p10so25840546qke.3 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:32:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FkU07D+/9Lr6EFz9gQeqMROzozposD4ocfSydSNSosg=; b=W21RKCNQOi3qXdd3wJnxTvpFvfRIEHiFOksPAKRh4JKgNL3XVGqU1DRd3n1IJua5ue sn6afrcorrazOvhnoc9VAvUqxJlsLCx/kK3QX38Nz4H2SSqVHF58w9ekND7RQ5ajreAv LQsBrRuBd0JYzru5PBLCP4rHT2UOcmXiYuNG7db00N6TpocXX1EPENtFQfMcr+uvnRU/ r6g2lC97Rvb3MNDaaKROz+b/1eI/Hke3eIrVBG0bX6T1buAOx0RUw7IQi7S/unNGODk8 WYYvMCLzmUtELwdVyNgAovGbymIdSRsXD4LQJKqT9rksg8m7kBqdWhdVpHC0snLDziB3 10Ow== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tJVfU0vJxZqug5P1BaNKTJl9yRgq06pPDMmklov6jVxhSxqLRi0LkNmcPPLiGxKgg== X-Received: by 10.200.38.120 with SMTP id v53mr30357174qtv.90.1466523144604; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.21.188.226] ([149.6.156.42]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 49sm18426118qtn.16.2016.06.21.08.32.23 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: per-version hints proposal To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <8b4723b2-1bd5-3604-1deb-cfd0a1c7b9d9@dronecode.org.uk> <20160621120321.GL3667@calimero.vinschen.de> <2bfdb839-05a8-4d07-7ae1-a8794615a5bc@gmail.com> <20160621142839.GC12441@calimero.vinschen.de> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:32:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160621142839.GC12441@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-06/txt/msg00078.txt.bz2 On 21/06/2016 16:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 21 15:49, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> >> On 21/06/2016 14:03, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Jun 20 16:28, Jon Turney wrote: >>>> > >> >>> Ideally we wouldn't need something like "prev" at all since the version >>> number itself is sufficient to specify what's curr and what's old. >>> >>> As for test, IMHO it would make sense to specify "this is a test >>> release" right in the cygport file. This in turn could create a >>> per-version hint with a test marker which is evaluated by calm >>> accordingly. For instance, the name of the file could take over this >>> role. Or even better, the package version number itself. >>> >>> This would have an additional benefit: We couldn't just move a package >>> from test to curr, it would have to be explicitely rebuilt as non-test >>> release. >> >> not a huge fan of this. >> The last time we made the perl transition we put a lot of package in >> test as temporary solution. Rebuild all just to change a label >> seems a waste of time. > > Not a huge fan of what part? I think in general it makes sense to > keep the "test" info in the ${version}.hint file. If a simple > change to this file moves ${version} to non-test, ok with me. changing ${version}.hint is fine also for me. Rebuilding packages not ;-) > > > Corinna >