Jason Dagit wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Ben Franksen > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Reinier Lamers wrote: >> > I want to let you know that I am beginning to work on the final 2.4 >> > release, which would then happen some time this weekend. Compared to >> > 2.3.99.2, this would contain the remove-nonempty-directory (issue1749) >> fix >> > as the only extra patch. >> > >> > If I have again skimmed over a very important bug that _has_ to be >> > fixed to make an acceptable release, please let me know. >> >> See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/70614 and my >> follow-ups for what I consider a release-critical bug; because it means >> that after upgrading to 2.4 (as it stands) you can no longer use darcs >> for keeping track of changes to projects in the size-class of rtems, >> something that worked, if somewhat painfully, with 2.3.1. >> > > I think this is an important regression to address, but at the moment > we're > quite behind schedule on the 2.4 release. As far as I know all crash > related regressions are fixed with 2.4. Performance is our current focus, > but I question how critical this regression is relative to the other > enhancements, bug fixes, and what have you.
Right, there's a trade-off. > If I were the release manager, I would offer you the following compromise: > * We release 2.4 now and; > * when we find a fix for this regression we apply it to 2.4 and release > it > as 2.4.1. > > How does that sound? That sounds like a very practical solution. (Maybe add a warning to the fine print of the release notes?) Cheers Ben _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
