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On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:30:40AM -0700, Darren Kirby wrote: |
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> > > Well, I'm the upstream author, and _I_ think there should be different |
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> > > (ie: newer) version offered. Good enough? |
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> > No, not good enough, as that doesn't matter at all. All that matters is, |
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> > what's in the tree. And the latest stable version is 0.8, no matter what |
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> > you think. The question remains: Why should a different version be offered? |
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> Sorry Alexander, I just don't get where you're going with this. Version 0.8 |
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> was released September 27, 2004! There have been 4 major new releases since |
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> then, which include many bug fixes, and new and improved features. 0.8 is old |
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> and busted, 0.9.3 is the new hotness! |
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Guys, |
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Just to prevent the heat from escalating, may I offer my observation |
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that the two of you seems to be arguing about completely different |
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things? |
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Alexander (and I, likewise) probably misunderstood Darren's question |
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from the start: when he posted, I thought his expectation that "emerge |
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dir2ogg" should bring in a newer version than what was offered was a |
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lack of understanding of how the portage tree works (well, some of my |
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friends do actually think that the package management system [aptget, |
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rpm, portage, etc.] would actually be smart enough to automatically |
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go on the internet and find and install the latest version of a |
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program, so I wouldn't put any misconception past human capacity). |
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But it seems clear to me now that Darren is actually asking about |
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whether it is polite to give the devs a gentle nudge, asking them |
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to remove an old, buggy version of software from the portage tree |
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and add/stablize newer, updated versions (and how to go about doing |
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so if it is polite). |
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I am actually curious about the same thing: some of the packages that |
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I use are also a year or two out of date, for the most part I can |
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get around it by using overlays and third-party ebuilds, and I am |
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making an effort to learn how to write ebuilds, but it would be nice |
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to see those ebuilds committed to the official tree. |
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W |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton |
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