18 Aug
2009
18 Aug
'09
7:17 a.m.
The other specific considerations in this mail aside, sticking with older versions of a package sounds like a recipe for disaster.
It's certainly not ideal. It'd conflict with the HP goal of trying to synchronise the versions of packages people are targeting and using.
I don't see what is so awful about it. Libraries often have a "stable" version and a "development" version. Sticking with the stable version is exactly the right thing for the Platform to do, until the maintainer of the library declares that the development version is sufficiently robust to become the new stable branch. And it is not a disaster if the Platform packagers take a different view on the relative stability of different versions. Regards, Malcolm