Re: [Fisterra-devel] Question about new distribution of packages (too much packages?)

[Xabier R. C. <xrc...@ig...>]

O Mar, 18-09-2007 =E1s 19:58 +0200, Jorge Barreiro Gonzalez escribiu:
> Another thing I'm doing is splitting the packages. I divided libfisterra =
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> libfisterra-common, libfisterra-client and libfisterra-server. In additio=
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> every lib* package has its lib*-dev, lib*-dbg and lib*-doc package.
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> That division has its advantages. One can install only what really needs =
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> nothing else,and a library can evolve independently of the others (the au=
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> module could be upgraded and become binary incompatible with its previous=
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> version. If there's only one big package with all modules, every  module =
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> be upgraded without real changes. ).
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> The problem comes with bmodules. There are 10 modules, most with 3 versio=
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> (common, client and server), and adding the -dev, -doc and -dbg packages,=
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> there will be near 100 packages. It can be really hard to work with that=20
> amount of packages. Not only for creating them, but for using them.=20
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> There are scripts for creating them, and metapackages for using them but =
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> are still a lot of packages. What do you think? Would be useful to have a=
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> that packages, or would be better to just have bmodules splitted in commo=
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> client and server packages?=20

	I thinks it's a nice work!

	Greetings.

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