Re: [ITP] gt5-1.3 -- A terminal program to show disk usage and navigate between directories

[Peter Ekberg <peda at lysator dot liu dot se>]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:48:28AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> "Dr. Volker Zell" writes:
> 
> >>>>>> Jari Aalto writes:
> 
> > Jari it would be nice if the two steps (pkg/spkg) in your build
> > scripts behave like in other build scripts (g-b-s/Yaakov's
> > Gentoo-based package build script). They should produce binary and
> > source packages in the same directory in which the build script
> > itself is located.
> 
> I saw two problems with it:

*snip*

>     2) Parallel development of many packages is possible only if
>     all development is done within the "branch"
> 
>         ROOT
>             package-a
>                     version-1.1/
>                     version-2.1/
>                     version-3.1/
>             package-b
>                     version-1.1/-!-
>                     version-2.1/
>                     version-3.1/
> 
>     Suppose you're building in -!-, and the result [source].tar.gz and
>     [bin].tar.gz are put ../ above. The you move to version-2.1/ and
>     the results are again put ../ above.

But will not the results be versioned?

I.e:
package-b-1.1-1-src.tar.bz2
package-b-1.1-1.tar.bz2
package-b-2.1-1-src.tar.bz2
package-b-2.1-1.tar.bz2

(But this does not refute your other arguments, of course)

Cheers,
Peter