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Re: Quality: some thoughts on achieving it (long)



On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > As for an automated build capability, it would be
> > nice but I wouldn't expect it any time soon.
> 
> We have most of the pieces in place. Manoj contributed a package order tool,
> and most packages are now in the new source format. People seem to be polishing
> off the rest of the old-format packages at a rapid rate. On my ALPHA, most of
> the new format packages build without a problem.

Simple ordering of builds might work for some, mabybe even most,
packages, but it won't work for all of them.  Many Tcl/Tk packages,
for example, expect to find a compatible, already built Tcl/Tk in a
sibling directory.  If they find an older or newer version, they may
not work correctly.

FWIW, this is one of the reasons I don't like the policy of forcing
source directories to have a hyphen between the basename and version
number.  It forces many gratuitous changes to Tcl/TK package which
don't use a hyphen.

David
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