pkgng 1.1 beta best way to make people tests

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:40:04AM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As a first mail on this list, I want to open a discussion on what would be the
> best way to handle the beta phase of pkgng in the ports tree.
> 
> We are about to enter in a beta phase and we want to add the beta to the ports
> tree so that people can test it easily. We also want the users to keep having
> the 1.0 as default.
> 
> We have 2 possibilities here:
> 1- add WITH_PKGNG_DEVEL=yes to the actual ports-mgmt/pkg port switching the 1.0
> version to 1.1b1 a bit like WITH_NEW_XORG. bonus: really simple, can only be
> activated on purpose by the user.
> 
> 2- add a ports-mgmt/pkg-devel with the new beta which will conflict with
> ports-mgmt/pkg.
> 
> As a difficulty remember that the local.sqlite smoothly upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1
> but cannot be switch backward.
> 
> So far I plan a two month beta/rc phase for pkg 1.1 I think the code is quite as
> robust as the 1.0 branch is and should not bring too much surprises, of course,
> no date base release, it will be out when ready :)
> 
> Regards,
> Bapt

Sorry all wrong mailing list :(

regards,
Bapt
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