Luís Oliveira <luismbo <at> gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Xristos Kalkanis <ccalca <at> essex.ac.uk>
wrote:
Is there a reason that asdf-install is "not as recommendable"? [...] The latest cffi release does not install cleanly with asdf-install
I guess that's why I wouldn't recommend it. It pulls way too many dependencies, tries to compile every system in advance, most developers don't use it themselves, etc. I agree that a repository/system stable release is useful but I don't think asdf-install is an adequate solution.
In any case, by the time asdf-install fails, it has already downloaded all of the dependencies required by CFFI, so it's somewhat usable.
My 2c is that if CFFI is no longer ASDF-INSTALLable then the previous version of CFFI should really be linked from the CLiki. This is the version that ASDF- INSTALL will use. Otherwise the installation of any package that depends on ASDF-INSTALL and CFFI is automatically broken. - Luke