[development] resolving problems with version-specific dependencies

[Clemens Tolboom]

I don't use profiles ... should I?

Having a profile installed does not solve the problem with a next  
release of a module. Should that be installed or not.

I think that if one promisses to solve 'version-specific dependencies'  
I would vote for core.

But let's first make core better in dependency management versionless :)


Op 8 mrt 2008, om 09:25 heeft Derek Wright het volgende geschreven:

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> On Mar 7, 2008, at 9:07 PM, Oleg Terenchuk wrote:
>
>> difficulty when you have a project with many modules but not every  
>> module supports every version
>
> While version-specific dependencies are actually hard (in spite of  
> Gabor's message that the only problem is that the people who think  
> this is easy don't do it), there is a possible solution that is  
> relatively straight-forward.  Install profiles should be packaged up  
> with everything they depend on into a single tarball.  This is a  
> much more simple problem to solve than functionality in core (and on  
> d.o) to handle version-specific dependencies in general.  Every  
> profile just needs a file that lists the exact versions of the  
> modules that should be packaged up with it.  Even if people aren't  
> going to run the profile to install a new site, they could still use  
> the tarball as a collection of the right versions of a bunch of  
> modules that depend on each other.
>
> Not only is this a partial solution to the version dependency  
> problem, it'd be a massive usability win for install profiles.
>
> I even started a bunch of discussions on g.d.o about exactly how  
> this will work, and I'm planning to start a fund-raising campaign to  
> raise sponsorship to implement it all.  My goal is to have this  
> working on d.o within a month or two, but I can't yet commit to a  
> date.
>
> Cheers,
> -Derek (dww)
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