-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christian Parpart wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2005 02:04, Carlos Silva wrote: > [...] > >>What do you think of this? > > > I once asked for a better place (namely metadata.xml), but got corrected with > the following reason: > > HOMEPAGE/LICENSE/DESCRIPTION might change over version bumps; not just the > revision/version number, also the description reflecting major behavior > changes from version 0.1 to 1.0 for example; > The license may change for numerous reasons; > The homepage may change as version 1.2.4.x might be available on $URL/a and > 1.4.8.y might be available on $URL/b (and though maybe even slotted); both > can still be the same package; though slotted, and with differend homepage > URL. > So have versioned metadata, it's XML afterall.
> But anyway, I feel that these cases in realworld are really very rare (except > the the license-change thingy) > > just my thoughts, > Christian Parpart. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQvrKxWzglR5RwbyYAQLArw/+Nt4va3nPrms2QR7gd2X5NxBwrpt6jsVm TfS9HKVNX++hOdYBozgL/t+FWR4litUO5s5vaYMOG5iGM9PCv6xJDV2t3NpGTMZQ UrBuJ+NW6duBfytFsY/quHtshhGojB1BtYewMX1pf9dkOeVb8EdWmtWepcLu0w4T 3kVSMZ6nY4T0QCrXS09FI7cnFpmQVQlC5Yz4GHjP4GB7sgsTWz1XRv3pHWeE0uqi ERpgsJKKrNsCd0jO11WcsOuwzsfO2TZVvrIJMfgBx4xjl/LNiRkodYHCeHSBMr+Q wYW3pXXFRvgnuTfzGpNz4oeBogP09+ZkKjCmRHBAzinJNh563ZQguQWHy3JY/MSC BlgwmVRTiqB27grmZOj6Btrh+l0D58Yq/fhlmp1VgYDCOG4agIjEq3NyhbO5EdVx rZLKBLTsDldMbh4ldT7Ob7APNti9phbj6+3gDcmyEoRykXJHQjGfQMky8SUruXJ9 DCnSOSoIHikZ/AdyWKKERcxLcbPQzaGRV6/mvtk+q7i0UbLUdGVrB0A9xtZYd0tv B3yy+giZr1ydVYhPlh8JTjjgMheSj8tkvmpcjXbWbMjhLPrC8rI9xh9M99qU9wmg IiVS8rx3I5fWkn/c3b1D5gte+PUrPcQIQmY2lDHfagCXsddhSWkbhL5kf0x+DWvo 2dww9ZmGvmI= =yt6E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
