RFC: setup package in Base

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Fri Jul 6 14:05:00 GMT 2018


On 06/07/2018 14:51, Jon Turney wrote:
> Thanks for the patch.
> 
> The version is checked (again), at ini.cc:404
> 
> I've never understood why we have this twice.
> 
> (I think the idea might be that first we are checking the setup version 
> as a proxy for the setup.ini format version, to warn if there might be 
> problems parsing it.  The second time we are checking the setup version 
> to see if an upgrade of setup is possible)

Ah, so now we have setup-minimum-version, checking setup-version: in the 
ini parser should probably be removed (or disabled when 
setup-minimum-version: is present?)



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