Re: Updating fis-gtm package to 6.1

On 02/06/2014 09:21 PM (US Eastern Time), Luis Ibanez wrote:

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:

> Following the policy for Git-based packaging, we should be able
> to host both versions 6.0 and 6.1 side by side without conflict.

Yes. But we probably need to find out how to work with branches in
git-buildpackage.

Yes, that's the plan.

From what I have read in the documentation, this case is

well supported by the git-buildpackage infrastructure.

So, things are looking good...

> I have checked with Bhaskar and Amul, and we are in agreement
> on the benefit of preparing 6.1 for the packaging.

...

In short: Yes, lets go with the packaging but lets think about a
reasonable upgrade path for the future.

Agree,

I'll bow to Bhaskar on making the case for how many versions is

reasonable to have in the future as we maintain a sliding window

of them.

[KSB] Since a GT.M release is frozen for all time once it's released, one answer is as many releases as we have disk for. Another answer is that although we periodically get e-mails from people with five and ten year old releases, we normally consider releases to have a two year window of peak use, and maintaining three years' worth is a good number. That will probably translate to about ten releases.

> Would you welcome this update at this point ?

We should also define the "default" fis-gtm version. You could steal
the packaging idea from gcc or python or whatever - so if the user
wants to install fis-gtm he gets the latest version.

Yes.

I believe the current package already does this with the fis-gtm

meta-package, and it is one of the early features that Bhaskar

wanted to make sure that were in place.

That said, we will only truly test it now that we are about to

have two versions simultaneously.

I'll take a first cut at this during the weekend.

[KSB] I'll check e-mail regularly to see if there are any questions I can answer - depending on electricity and Internet access, of course. We had an ice storm two days ago following which 87% of the electricity customers in the county I live in lost power and around 50% are still without power (yes, this is near a major city in the United States!) and there is more snow in this weekend's forecast.

Regards
-- Bhaskar

Many Thanks

Luis

-- 
GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises.

_____________
The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you.