Re: ketchup script and 3.0

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 13:50 -0700, david@lang.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


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