Re: [XBoard-devel] new developer release

[h.g. muller]

One question:

why do we call the release from master a "developer release"?
Will we ever do "version releases" from this branch? It is the
development branch, after all, so any release is bound to be
a developer release, until we are ready to call it 4.5.0.

For the v4.4.x branch we clearly make the destinction, so
a "developer release" will be considered inferior to the release
of a new version, whch will deter people from using it. E.g.
it might not go into Debian. It should be more clear to people
if they can expect the release of a "more final" version from
master, or if "this is it".

Now I guess that in this particular case what we have in both
branches actually does fall short of the mark for a "version
release": The tar ball has parser.c in the winboard directory,
while the gcc and ms Makefiles do look for it in the XBoard
directory, so it will not build unless you have flex installed.
On the other hand, this means the release is probably not
broken for compiling with the IDE of the Windows compiler.