Re: [MoM] Packaging fis-get

["Bhaskar, K.S" <ks.bhaskar@fisglobal.com>]

On 01/29/2012 04:32 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 03:48:18PM -0500, Bhaskar, K.S wrote:
>
> > [KSB] Actually, this is a good segue into another topic, packages and
> > metapackages.  We should have GT.M packages with names like
> > fis-gtm-5.4-002b and a meta package fis-gtm that depends on
> > fis-gtm-5.4-002a or fis-gtm-5.4-002b or fis-gtm-5.5-000.  Or perhaps
> > the actual packages will combine a package number with a GT.M release
> > number, e.g., fis-gtm-5.4-002b.01.
> >
> > The reason is that once we release a GT.M release, it's frozen for
> > all time.  Thus, might be ICU 4.2, ICU 4.4, etc., which are different
> > versions of ICU, but each may have a series of releases.  But once a
> > GT.M release or version goes out, there will never be another one
> > with the same number.
> I do not quite understand what's special about that.
>
> Once GNUmed 1.2.0 is released there will NEVER be another
> release labelled 1.2.0.  The next bug fix release will be
> 1.2.1 and the next feature release will be 1.3, or whatever
> we decide.
>
> There must be something else about GT.M versioning/releases
> which I don't quite get yet ?
>
> > Also, users routinely have multiple GT.M
> > releases or versions installed on their computers, and multiple GT.M
> > releases peacefully co-exist on the same computer.
> Like PostgreSQL 8.4/9.0/9.1 and GNUmed 0.7, 0.9, and 1.1 ?
>
> Surely there must be a way to
>
> - release a bug fix version

[KSB] Bugs are only fixed in new versions/releases.

> - enable a user to "transfer" her data/configuration
>    to 5.5-000 who initially ran 5.3-017g-whatnot

[KSB] We are very particular about regressions.  So, it's usually just a 
matter of recompiling the code, and if a database upgrade is required, 
running the database upgrade.  On those rare occasions when we must make 
something not 100% upward compatible (and it is indeed very rare), we 
flag it in the release notes.

Regards
-- Bhaskar

> ?
>
> Thanks,
> Karsten

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