[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: suite3270-3.3.4p7-1, c3270-3.3.4p7-1, pr3287-3.3.4p7-1, s3270-3.3.4p7-1, tcl3270-3.3.4p7-1, x3270-3.3.4p7-1

[Peter A. Castro]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Eric Blake wrote:

>> NOTE: The previous release of suite3270 for Cygwin incorrectly named the
>> pr3287 package as 'pr3270'.  This release corrects the package name.  The
>> previous, incorrectly, named package will remain until that release
>> (3.2.20) is removed from the distribution sometime in the future.
>
> For the package rename to work, you should provide an empty tarball named
> suite3270/pr3270/pr3270-3.3.4p7-1.tar.bz2, then update that setup.hint
> to require: the pr3287 package and mark suite3270 in the _obsolete
> category.  Otherwise, people might be stuck with the old pr3270 package,
> possible with version mismatch problems, because setup.exe didn't
> auto-update to pull in the new package name.

No, this won't work.  There's only one setup.hint per package and it's
not versionable (at least not that I can find).  Besides, suite3270 is a
base package and the other packages (eg: c3270, pr3287, etc) require *it*
and not the other way around.  I went a few rounds with Chris and Corinna
on package organization in the beginning for these and it was decided
that the current organization is the best, and I'm not changing it.

At present, there are two packages in the list: pr3270 and pr3287.
Eventually pr3270 will be obsoleted and removed and anyone who needs the
latest version will simply have to pick it up by the correct name.  It's
not that big a deal.  Heck, in the world of Linux packages it seems most
packages of a given distribution change names each major release (well,
at least that's how it appears to me :)

And, honestly, pr3287 is a lesser know/used package.  Anyone who really
needs it will know to look for the correct name in the future.

> --
> Eric Blake

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