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Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:59:32 -0500 From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> To: david@...g.hm Cc: Stratos Psomadakis <psomas@....ntua.gr>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Frank Kingswood <frank@...gswood-consulting.co.uk>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: ketchup script and 3.0 On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 13:50 -0700, david@...g.hm wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > But my point is that if we have adhoc transitions, we will encounter the > > "fix all the scripts and websites" pain at every transition. And tools > > that are managed via distros and the like can literally take years to > > get into the hands of users. It'd be nice if the copy of ketchup shipped > > in <enterprise distro> just worked 3 years from now because 4.0 wasn't a > > surprise. > > if you special case 2.4->2.6, and make the default that 4.0 > 3.x, 5.0 > > 4.x, etc won't things 'just work' for the forseeable future? No, because you sometimes want to know what 2.6.39++ is and what 3.0-- is. For instance, to upgrade from 2.6.37.2 to 3.1.2, ketchup will want to download, cache, and apply: patch-2.6.37.2 (reversed!) patch-2.6.38 patch-2.6.39 patch-3.0 ?? <- hopefully Linus will make a delta against 2.6.39! patch-3.1 patch-3.1.2 -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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