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On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 13:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 12:57:23PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > Are we disagreeing about something? I am not sure anymore. :] > I was just reacting to Chuck's assertion that setup.hint is now the > "normal" method not the "fallback" method for version handling. I don't > agree with that. I happen to agree with Chuck. All the metadata to drive the new setup *can* be placed directly into setup.ini or setup.hint. I'm in favour of simply saying "put it in setup.hint". > As I've said repeatedly, I expect that setup.hint will eventually hold > all of the information and setup.ini will be generated solely from this. > After that happens, eventually, I expect that there will be a file in > the package itself which contains this info and maybe setup.hint will > disappear. Correct. > Right now most of the information is concentrated in setup.ini. It was > a lot easier for me to manipulate all of the package info in setup.ini > than it would have been to have it in 88 different directories. I expect > this to change. I've no objection to *you* editing setup.ini. I've an objection to new maintainers doing *anything* directly to setup.ini. And the doco we are writing is for *new maintainers* - like Kevin. > to add 'prev' and 'curr' options unless version numbering is strange or > there is a 'test' requirement. Agreed. Rob
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