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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Google API Go Client packages; slotting?
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 07:05:17
Message-Id: 56EF9D1E.1060007@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Google API Go Client packages; slotting? by Andrew Udvare
1 On 03/20/2016 11:45 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote:
2 > https://github.com/google/google-api-go-client/
3 >
4 > Looking at these to generate ebuilds for (with a script and GitHub API).
5 > There might be an issue with assuming versions supersede (otherwise why
6 > would they keep multiple versions up?).
7
8 Can you clarify which versions you're talking about? We shouldn't slot
9 it if the new versions are backward compatible.
10
11 > I think slotting may be the real
12 > solution to that. Is that ugly? Or should multiple versions installed
13 > never be supported?
14
15 Only slot if the new version is not backward compatible.
16
17 > Currently I'm re-wrapping https://github.com/odeke-em/drive (I had done
18 > this before when there were no Go helper eclasses).
19
20 Oh, that could be handy for drive users.
21 --
22 Thanks,
23 Zac

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