On Friday, January 11, 2019 at 7:50:07 AM UTC-5, Andrew Marlow wrote: > > On Wednesday, 9 January 2019 02:41:14 UTC, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> Crypto++ 8.1 will be released in about two weeks. It is a planned release. >> >> We found that we don't really get the testing we want until after a >> release. Comprehensive testing occurs when folks move to a newer version. >> To take advantage of the phenomenon we schedule a minor version bump with >> bug fixes 30 days after the major release. That means 8.0 is released, 8.1 >> is released at +30d, and 8.1 effectively becomes our long term release >> (sans a major bug fix, like a CVE). We've been doing this for the last >> three releases and it has worked well. >> > > This does remind me of the funny story about the man who wrote to a > biscuit manafacturer, complaining that the top biscuit in the packet seemed > to be nearly always broken. He suggested that in future they leave out the > top biscuit. > > This annoucement makes me think that everyone will not bother with version > x.0.0 of any release, they will just wait for version x.1.0. Once > absolutely *everybody* is doing that, some people will wait until version > x.2.0. And so on. Just like leaving out the top biscuit. >
Yeah, Uri pinged me on the side with a similar observation. The one thing we have in our back pocket is, distros move on the major release. They always manage to uncover something. For example, Debian is having problems with a Hurd build. Once they find something broke with x.0.0, we patch and get them a x.1.0 which does not need patching. Some folks will update when a new release comes out. They also benefit like the distros. They get an updated release that does not need patching. The others will find their way eventually. There's little benefit in waiting for them since we have the distros and fast-adopters. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to "Crypto++ Users". More information about Crypto++ and this group is available at http://www.cryptopp.com and http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cryptopp-users. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Crypto++ Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
