[pacman-dev] CVS update of pacman-lib/pactest (pmenv.py tests/upgrade056.py)

[Aaron Griffin]

On 2/28/07, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:18:28 -0600
> b) The first one that comes to mind would be a
> python/jython/ironpython/pypy example.  Python programs can be written
> against python 2.5, but jython only supports python 2.2 (so it would
> provide=('python-2.2')).  Pypy 0.99.0 provides python-2.5 (I believe).
>
> Same sort of thing for java with kaffe, jre, gcj, etc.
>
> If you think of a group of provisions, any time a fundamental change
> happens to the entire group, you'd probably want a new version number.

Added an FR:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6508