[LAU] Ardour3

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:

> the ardour3-svn pgkbuild in AUR is basically nothing more then a simple
> script which saves users who want to run from svn some typing work.
> this is not an official package or whatever.
> users who use this know that it is not supported by Arch and obviously,
> that it builds from svn.  what should probably be added is a clear
> disclaimer "do not ask upstream for support on this unless you know how
> to debug" or something like that.
> Removing the pkgbuild (and hence just making it harder to run from svn)
> doesn't solve the core problem.  a warning like the one above does.

but that's not the core problem. the core problem, from my
perspective, is that svn evolves by the hour at the moment. when you
release something that looks like a package (even if it doesn't walk
like a package), people (users) tend to think that something
significant has happened, when it has not. they don't realize that if
they really want to try it out and then they run into problems that an
update & a rebuild comes first. they thus easily conclude that its
broken and that there is no way to know when it will be fixed, when
the answer maybe that it was fixed 3 hours ago. this is the danger of
"packaging" svn for any active project. people avoid SVN updates to
avoid breakage, and thus they avoid the fixes too.