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Managing development packages #11

Open mkao006 opened 8 years ago

mkao006 commented 8 years ago

I think we should be able to install packages from development branch and test it on the system before releasing the new version. This will reduce the update frequency of packages and redundant versions.

For example, when I am working on the validation module, I need to constantly making changes to multiple packages as a result of review or redesigning of the module. Sometimes tit can be as small as a single line. I don't want to update the package version just due to a single line change.

I think we should be able to install from development branch, but without updating the package version.

What do you think @sebastian-c ? Any suggestions?

sebastian-c commented 8 years ago

This is an idea I've wanted to implement, but there are a few problems:

  1. Installing packages can lead to unreliable results (functions changing during the running of a script). This means that a restart is the only safe way to perform this.
  2. This is being changed, but root privileges are required to install packages. A solution might be to allow installation of packages into another directory and to give that one priority. Actually, that's a pretty good idea. It still doesn't solve the restart issue, however. Mind you, QA is meant to be for testing and by nature, unstable.

Do you have any ideas for how to allow this? I'm hesitant to just allow people to modify a library. On the other hand, adding any kind of protection is a lot of work. But maybe an override library for QA only isn't such a bad idea.

On 28 May 2016 at 22:28, Michael. C. J. Kao notifications@github.com wrote:

I think we should be able to install packages from development branch and test it on the system before releasing the new version. This will reduce the update frequency of packages and redundant versions.

For example, when I am working on the validation module, I need to constantly making changes to multiple packages as a result of review or redesigning of the module. Sometimes tit can be as small as a single line. I don't want to update the package version just due to a single line change.

I think we should be able to install from development branch, but without updating the package version.

What do you think @sebastian-c https://github.com/sebastian-c ? Any suggestions?

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