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On 07/11/2017 10:25, Houder wrote:
On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:02:08, Achim Gratz wrote:Jon Turney writes:Since [1], there's no way to install a prev version using setup, without explicitly selecting which version you want, so the ordering of those [prev] versions in setup.ini is relatively unimportant.For setup that is true, but linear parsers that can only keep one version for each section would benefit if the last [prev] section was the one that immediately precedes [curr]. So it would be helpful if you could ensure it's done that way and state it in the documentation.Agreed! A linear parser of setup.ini would _definitely_ benefit if - the "current" section, - the most recent [prev] section, and - the most recent [test] section would have a "fixed" position relative to the package section. I concur.
I'd much rather put things in version order, but it seems that is impossible.
I've added a sentence to the description of setup.ini which documents the position of preferred [test] and [prev] sections.
Note that it is 'previous' in the sense of 'version comes before the current version', not 'previously was current'.
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