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From: | Paul Jarc |
Subject: | Re: 'GNU tools' versions and upgrades |
Date: | Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:44:05 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) |
David T-G <davidtg@justpickone.org> wrote: > Has someone already invented the wheel of maintaining software > development tools so that the current version (eg gcc/egcs) is > available but so that someone can easily fall back to an old version > (eg gcc 2.92 or so) because the environment of an old project > dictates that? This can be done by installing each version of each package with its own directory prefix. I think GNU stow does that. There's also the slashpackage project: <URL:http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html> I've installed several existing packages in slashpackage style: <URL:http://multivac.cwru.edu./sptools/> paul
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