On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 12:29 +0200, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
Our relationship with people packaging Drupal has also been rather problematic. ;p
I hope not with Gentoo...
Also, before you consider doing any package you should check if your distribution's release policy matches Drupal's. As a result of such a check not being done, Debian ships now with a Drupal 4.5 package which isn't maintained by us anymore.
Not sure what you mean here -- Gentoo tends to be a moving target, so if 4.6 gets deemed as the new upstream stable, Gentoo devs tend to follow up on that in the distro itself (in most cases, anyway).
This is not a thing developers themselves can do anything about. The problem is with our way of packaging things. Luckily, this should change soon and from there on tarballs once created should be stable.
Being completely new to the world of drupal, I'm not sure I understand the packaging method or the changes in store. Can you point me to a doc where I may learn more? Also, when will these changes happen? Thanks, -- Seemant Kulleen Developer, Gentoo Linux