Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Mar 11 13:28:12 PDT 2009


Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> On Mar 11, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> This was one of Jordan's crazy ideas IIRC, and there's a reason it's
>> classified as very challenging. The idea, as I understand it, is that
>> you wouldn't be able to uninstall the old version when something is
>> linked against it.
> 
> Correct, though I don't know how "crazy" of an idea it is to try and
> make any collection involving hundreds, if not thousands, of software
> packages installed on any machine more robust in the face of version
> skew. :-)

Read "crazy" as "revolutionary" if you prefer. :-)

- Josh


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