svn commit: r473390 - in head: . www/drush
Mathieu Arnold
mat at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 13 14:50:19 UTC 2018
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:04:16PM +0200, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
>
>
> On 26.06.2018 18:37, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 03:33:26PM +0000, Matthias Fechner wrote:
> >>
> >> +20180625:
> >> + AFFECTS: users of PHP based applications like drush
> >> + AUTHOR: mfechner at FreeBSD.org
> >> +
> >> + Flavors are being added to PHP applications. If you use PHP 5.6 you need:
> >> +
> >> + # pkg set -n drush:drush-php56
> >> +
> >> + For more details see 20180611.
> >> +
> >
> > Please, do not create an entry for every PHP application that has
> > flavors added. If you really feel people will not understand what to
> > do, add an example to the existing 20180611 entry.
>
> As mentor i insisted on this entry. I think such an entry is necessary
> because of the way pkg updating works.
>
> When my last update was on 20180620 i will use "pkg updating -d
> 20180620". This will not include the generic entry for PHP flavor in
> 20180611. This is the reason why we keep the entry short and referenced
> back.
>
> I saw multiple people struggling with the switch to flavors, because the
> didn't know about it. Once they get it, everything is fine. But until
> there they need help. And its definitely POLA to hide the help in
> entries weeks or months before the impact.
>
> If you still feel against it, there is only one good way to avoid it:
> convert the rest of PHP-applications in one step. So there will be only
> one entry needed.
Well, UPDATING is already hard enough to troll through, if there are 200
entries for different php applications, it is going to be a nightmare.
I am all for all the PHP applications to be converted to flavors, as
long as I am not the one doing it :-)
--
Mathieu Arnold
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