[Nix-dev] Re: Nix-env bugs

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 04/06/2011 11:42 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Eelco Dolstra<e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>  writes:
>
>> This is probably because all the other Pythons were marked as low
>> priority.  It just so happens that I merged the modular-python branch
>> today, which gets rid of all old Python versions.  So this problem
>> should be gone now.
>
> I think it can be useful to keep old versions of important pieces of
> software around, at least from a continuous integration viewpoint: it
> allows users to test their software against a range of versions and
> variants of their dependencies.  I’ve found it useful with GCC and Linux
> kernels, for instance.

Yes.  But in this instance I would have had to backport the modularisation 
changes to Python 2.4/2.6, which didn't seem worth the effort.  If somebody 
needs the old Python versions, I can still do this (I don't think the build 
process changed much between those releases).

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