Lex,
lex@cc.gatech.edu wrote:
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combinatorial explosion here, hints regarding stable/unstable/bleedingEdge/etc. from the package maintainers would be helpful though...
I suggest we solve this through the idea of package universes. You simply live in a bleeding edge universe or a stable one. I don't see how you can combine a bleeding edge package and a stable package and get something meaningful. The result is not stable, for sure.
There's no explosion in practice. The simple "Stable" versus "Unstable" goes a long way.
The paragraph in my original post has been:
* But testing is nevertheless important: it would be very good to have * many automatically runnable tests to classify package combinations as * stable/unstable/bleedingEdge/etc.. Since we are faced with a * combinatorial explosion here, hints regarding * stable/unstable/bleedingEdge/etc. from the package maintainers would be * helpful though...
So the 'combinatorial explosion' means *testing* of package combinations here: and there is such a thing *even* in universes separating stable/unstable/etc. with only one kind of packages. But putting all in one universe *without* labeling them (as suggested) makes the problem much more worse. That has been my point here.
Greetings Stephan
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