This sounds like the stable/unstable release pattern that is common
to many open source project. I like the idea but I wonder about the
implimentation. Will we have to branch the CVS tree to support this?
Does "release" branch would only get bug fixes while the "main"
branch continues with development of new features? I don't know
enough about CVS to determine if this is a viable option and how
much work it would take to create and maintain.
Jeff Foster
jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: Andrew Feren [mailto:aferen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:47 AM
>
> > From: "Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:53 AM
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:32:51PM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> > > Everyone have access to the "prereleases".
> > > The prereleases are available in two forms:
> > > * Nightly snapshot mode
> > > * anonymous CVS mode
> >
> > For real compile testing, a third form would be
> >
> > * A tarball built with "make dist"
>
> This seems like a good idea. Basically just continue doing releases as
they
> happen now. ;-)
>
> Perhaps do a 0.9.X.unblessed release and let it sit for a week.
Adventurous
> (or impatient) developers can check that it compiles on their system. If
no
> one complains after a week that becomes the 0.9.X tarball. If there are
> problems with the unblessed version fix them and repeat the process.
>
> Aside from simplicity this seems like the right solution since I think the
> complaints are about the tarball (rather than source from CVS) not
working.
> Besides since (as you point out) not all the same tools are required for a
> tarball build as for a CVS build we could implement some elaborate freeze
> process and still have the tarball not work.
>
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