Re: [IBMiOSS] The README for 5733-OPS Option 3

Hi John,

I am only knowledgeable enough to recognize that the comments are too old,

not to suggest proper ones.

As best I can tell the README.md is accurate and up to date. Maybe it
would be good to further explain how the .lst files work. There are cases
where you'd want a specific version of a given package and by having, and
keeping, multiple versions for, say, git, we are able to allow people
flexibility. The alternative would be to have only one pkg_perzl_git.lst
and always having it contain the latest and not support the install of
older versions.

We ~could~ make it more like apt-get or other by making the pkg_setup.sh
script much more refined, but at the end of the day the perzl stuff will
just be a stepping stone until we formally adopt (and build) something
better (i.e. a full fledged package manager).


Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:07 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

[John Y.:]
And wandering even further off topic, just how old
is that README.md (that comes with Option 3)?
Those comments next to the .lst files (for perzl
versions of gcc, perl, and python) are quite obsolete.

How far off is it from the repo's current README.md?

http://bit.ly/2ccfFr8

That text hasn't changed.

Pull Requests are welcome :-)

I apologize for playing the role of complainer, but in this case I am
only knowledgeable enough to recognize that the comments are too old,
not to suggest proper ones.

I also recognize that both temperament (extreme conservatism) and
resource constraints contribute to packages and even operating systems
being out of date. (Witness all the folks still running V5R4, for
example.) I know we have a Red Hat box in production where I work,
whose system Python is version 2.3.something. Just insanely ancient.

Given that the listed perzl versions may be the latest available (with
little to no prospect of newer ones any time soon), maybe the old
comments are the most appropriate ones after all? As new things show
up from IBM or the community, that new stuff should naturally
supersede the perzl stuff, comments and all.

John Y.
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