Important for 3.9 submissions and fixes
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Sep 10 10:29:43 UTC 2005
On 10 sept. 05, at 11:08, Marcus Denker wrote:
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> Am 10.09.2005 um 10:42 schrieb stéphane ducasse:
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>> Hi all
>>
>> To ease harvesting I would like that we follow the following rules:
>> - check that if you removed a method, you deprecated it,
>> - check all its callers
>>
>> - if your changes only affect a package, publish it in that
>> package on inbox
>> - if your changes cross cut several packages, then package
>> them as another
>> package and during the inclusion in the image we will take
>> care to
>> dispatch the changes atomically in the right packages. Else
>> this will be the hell
>> for me to know which packages version should be loaded with
>> each other one
>>
>>
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> Yes, this is a real problem. But packaging this stuff as it's own
> mc package does
> not solve anthing: re-sorting all the extension methods and
> overrides is so much
> work that it would be easier to merge in a changeset than these
> patch-packages.
>
I know this is why I would like to be able the package browser and
have a dispatch
package functionality.
Stef
>
> One thing we need to think about: Monticello does a little bit of
> analysis and ordering
> when loading. This works surprisingly well. The problem now is that
> in the current
> setup, we load each package independly.
>
> Marcus
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