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Re: Groovy packaging



On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 18:11 +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> 2. Reuse groovy to package the next version of Groovy 2.x and then
> remove groovy2 (we keep the 2.x artifact to avoid updating all the
> reverse dependencies)
> 
> 3. Turn groovy into a dummy package depending on groovy2. The groovy
> package would become the equivalent of default-jdk, always pointing
> to
> the latest version available.
> 

I like having the ability to install a package and have the latest
version available rather than remember that I'm using a specific API
version. The versioned api packages do have their uses though. I only
count a few packages that depend on groovy2 so it shouldn't take too
long for them to get updated.

Until we have a need for multiple groovy versions again, it's just
extra work to maintain and build a dummy package. Why not leave it
until its really needed?

I'd vote for (2).

Andrew

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