It seems like on Sunday 06 of February 2005 23:41, Christopher Armstrong typed:
Yeah, I might accept the "backwards compatibility with existing dependencies" argument, but I don't think it's something that's necessary for general use. In a post-split world, deb packages that use Twisted stuff will depend on specific twisted subproject packages. Anyway, I'm not the one doing the deb packages, but there are my two cents.
You must remember that splitting into several packages from one tarball is much simpler than doing so using several different .spec files (each for one tarball) or bearing with many Sources in one big .spec. Moreover one tarball allows packagers to create -doc and -examples packages containing such things for whole Twisted. Personally I am a PLD Linux developer and until now (the one-tarball-distro version of Twisted 1.3) there are separate packages for docs, examples, ssl and some other, which I actually don't know what are they for and, believe me, managing packaging Twisted from one tarball plus splitting different parts into separate RPMs is really simpler than managing e.g. ten different .spec's. I know that because Xfce is distributed in dozens of tarballs, each has its own .spec file and both upgrading and reorganization of Xfce is a bit annoying. Summarizing, no, I'm not against changes. I'm only trying to insist on distributing Twisted also in one "gimme-all" tarball. ;-) P.S. Please, write *under* a quotation. -- Michal Chruszcz -=- Seen at http://1lo.sanok.pl/~troll/gallery.php