Re: [evolution-patches] Version independent desktop/keys file

[Harish Krishnaswamy <kharish novell com>]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 12:00 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> Is there any particular reason to not go ahead and remove the parallel
> installability bits for everything else too? Doing it for just the
> desktop and mime types stuff (which we should probably dump at some
> point anyway, since the keys/mime files aren't used any longer, that
> I know of), pretty much means that we are going to break it. 
What gets broken specifically ?

> This means
> that if a user installs unstable evolution, the menuitem for the stable
> version, will get replaced for the menuitem for the unstable version,
> and the user won't be able to launch the stable version from the menus
> any longer. And, they probably aren't going to be able to use it
> reliably anyway.
No. I guess not. Only the stable version would have been installed with
the enable-default-binary option set. Any developer who wishes to have a
parallel unstable installation would not be enabling the option.
(So the symlink still points only to the stable version). 
He w(sh)ould create a fresh launcher linking directly to the binary he
has built (which obviously is in a different install location and has
the version suffixed to its name). 


> 
> It would be nice to do all or none, and not be stuck somewhere in the
> middle.
> 
What changes do you think are missing - that *must* be done to do it
'all' ?

--Harish