On 28 Jul 2006, at 4:46 AM, Derek Wright wrote:
i can see why some people want to still support nightly snapshot builds/tarballs, but i don't think a) we should encourage their use on real sites, b) worry about how to handle those in installers/ real distributions, or c) delay having real version of contrib releases to get nightly snapshots working. if someone *really* wants the absolutely most recent code, they're probably a developer/ tester, and therefore, clueful enough to get the code from CVS. otherwise, they should be perfectly happy with the last real release that was bless and tagged by the maintainer on a given branch.
of course. but with a dependency system, a module should be able to depend on modulename > 4.7.34 || modulename >= head.2006.06.17 By not supporting some numbering for stuff in HEAD at the least, you make it impossible to actually test if the requirements are correctly met until a release is actually made of all packages in the dependency tree. -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com