On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 07:16:08PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote: > Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes: > > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >> > Guix should provide a stable experience, but if stable means too > >> > old to deliver a useable experience of an still in development > >> > network, what do we suggest? I would not replace gnunet and > >> > gnunet-gtk, I would just make gnunet-svn the default (gnunet will > >> > default to gnunet-svn) and gnunet-0.10.1 will have to be > >> > installed explicitly. > >> The reply to my bug report said something similar. If version 0.10.1 is > >> so old that upstream suggest taking the latest from SVN I suppose we > >> should do this too. > > > > I would argue that if upstream cannot be bothered to make a stable release > > every once in a while, this is not our business, unless there are dependent > > packages that stop working. > > > > On the other hand, as I fear that the number of users of the current gnunet > > is very limited, it probably does not hurt to update it with the version > > number 0.10.1-1-xxx for some svn checkout xxx. > > I am currently working on it, see also my latest Email to > guix-devel including the whys and tl;drs. > > > Andreas > > > > > > > > -- > ng > personal contact: http://krosos.sdf.org > EDN: https://wiki.c3d2.de/Echt_Dezentrales_Netz/en
Just to chime in, I think it's 'right' to package the 'stable' version by default since from what I know that's the version Debian and other distros like Parabola use by default. To have a version that by default breaks compatibility would be sad. Jookia.
