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Re: stable vs. feature releases?


From: Steve McIntyre
Subject: Re: stable vs. feature releases?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:54:09 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:05:14AM -0800, Gary Funck wrote:
>
>Recently, I wanted to use this date adjustment feature described
>in this circa 2005 email thread:
>http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg33178.html
>
>It turns out that the 1.12.10 release referred to above is
>in the 'feature' directory, and not the 'stable' directory
>on the web site where the source is distributed:
>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/source/feature/1.12.10/
>
>That 'feature' release was built in July 2005.
>
>How/when is the decision made to transition a release from
>'feature' to 'stable'?
>
>This is a relevant question, because various OS distributions
>may employ a policy that only 'stable' releases are distributed.

To be honest, it's not clear that there's going to be another CVS
release, either "stable" or "feature". Waiting for the useful features
to get merged back into the stable branch looked like it would take so
long that for the Debian packages I just moved onto the feature branch
a long time ago.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                address@hidden
  Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there
  must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the
  far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled
  knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer




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