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Grobian wrote: |
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> Good point. I have a Panther machine, but I must admit that I do not |
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> test everything on that machine. In that sense it would be nice if |
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> there were ppc-macos-10.3 and ppc-macos-10.4 keywords, as well as |
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> ppc-macos-progressive. |
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I think the cascaded profiles work well for standard vs. progressive |
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installs. It would be quite the fight to get a new keyword for this |
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sort of thing... I'd like to think there's a better solution than a |
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keyword. |
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> My opinion would be that we cannot claim to have something if there is |
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> noone that maintains it. I think this would effectively mean that 10.3 |
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> would be unsupported, or I would have to let my Panther box working very |
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> hard, but then I need my auto-testing idea to work, because I don't want |
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> to do it manual. |
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Maybe we need to start the process of acquiring a suite of test |
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machines? Dual-booting may also be an option for some of us. |
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> Normally, something first need to be tested. In this case I haven't. |
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> Maybe I'd better just give you the patches and let you deal with the bug |
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> instead of committing it. My bad, I was in doubt here, and reasoned |
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> that I didn't change anything to the code effectively. |
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No worries. I'm very much still learning as well. As far as I know, |
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the only package which uses this particular library is dev-lisp/clisp |
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and I'm the only user who cares about the package. If you broke |
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something, you'll have me to answer to! :p |
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> As you might have noticed, I'm some sort of new. |
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> At the moment I don't feel very comfortable and safe in doing what I do. |
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> This is mainly because of the many risks there are as you descibed |
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> here, I think. |
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This is a community supported project kept afloat by the spare time of |
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people like yourself, j4rgon, and kito. The bottom line is no one has |
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taken the time to work out a solution to these kinds of problems (and |
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maybe there is no good solution) so new people rightly feel lost. I |
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still feel quite lost myself. I like to ask (good) questions in the |
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hopes that they will encourage fruitful discussion. I don't have any |
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answers but I'd be honored to work with other devs and the community to |
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come up with good solutions. |
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