On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:29:58AM -0800, Mr.Bad wrote:
> >>>>> "TC" == Tavin Cole <tavin at mailandnews.com> writes:
> 
>     TC> Once this happens, would it make more sense in the future to
>     TC> reserve the trunk for the experimental future stuff and
>     TC> periodically make branches called "0.4", "0.5", etc.?  We'd
>     TC> still have a "stable" branch which would be associated with
>     TC> the latest released beta-numbered branch.
> 
> Well, normally, I'd say yes. I dislike having multiple branches with
> active development because it causes so much headache at merge time. 
> 
> But it seems like the majority of developers are going to be working
> on an intermediate version -- not the stable version for end users,
> not the out in the fringes version that O & S and anybody else would
> use.

Majority of the developers does not mean the majority of the work. "Only O
& S" (and now T) is not so only, a qualified majority of the code in Fred
is ours.  Experimental has probably had 5-6000 lines of code added to it
the last month, where as the trunk has probably only had a couple of
hundred.

> I guess it depends on how "experimental" the 0.5 version is going to
> be. The main reason we made the experimental branch in the first place
> was that the 0.4 that Oskar had was so ab0rken that it would slow up
> the rest of development if we had to deal with it.

Experimental will still not run. I was hoping it would before my trip to
America, but then I haven't set up a milestone yet that I haven't missed
(I still have 8 hours!).

> So, I'd probably say that we should cross that bridge when we come to
> it.

I agree with that.

> 
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