Re: Major package revisions

<jon@php.net> wrote : > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 06:50:13PM +0200, Martin Jansen wrote: > >>> I wasn't so much wondering about the packaging tools as I was curious >>> whether having Log 1.x and Log 2.x both listed on the package >>> information page would confuse things. I guess the Log 2.x version >>> would always be considered the "newest" and be offered by default. >> >> That's right ;-). Apart from changing the package information I don't >> see a good solution for this, unfortunately. > > I suppose one possible "solution" would be implementing a "branches" > system similar to Freshmeat's, but I doubt all that many packages > would really make use of it. Still, I wouldn't object if someone > were to implement such a feature. =) At least, the Config package would use it too as I have had the same problem as you with it. Its API has changed so I made a version 1 which is still beta for now. I have just put a tag in cvs but didn't create a branch. I would be interested to see how you sort that out. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam