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Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

classpath 0.07-2 has been accepted.

Please let me know if there any problems with it or jikes-classpath

John Leuner


On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 00:33, Ben Burton wrote:
> > Would it work if, say, classpath built a new package 
> > 'jikes-with-classpath' (whatever the name, but a new one), which 
> > 'Replaces: jikes-classpath' and 'Conflicts: jikes-classpath' ? Classpath 
> > could then keep its version number, and upgrades should still happen 
> > automatically.
> 
> No they wouldn't - AIUI you'd just sit on your stale jikes-classpath
> package until you made a conscious decision to install jikes-for-classpath
> (at which point the old jikes-classpath would be uninstalled).
> 
> With the epoch solution, the upgrade is completely automatic.
> 
> Ben.
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John Leuner <jewel@pixie.co.za>
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