On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
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> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Peter Donald wrote:
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> > At 02:15 23/4/01 -0700, Morgan Delagrange wrote:
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> > >--- Charles Burdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >=======================================================================
> > >>
> > >> April 22, 2001: Jakarta-commons Summary digest
> > >> Summarizing list traffic from Apr 15 through Apr 21.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >=======================================================================
> > >> Topics general to Jakarta-commons:
> > >>
> > >> ...
> > >>
> > >> [Configuration Mgmt]
> > >> - What is the best approach for CVS branches and
> > >> releases?
> > >>
> > >> ...
> > >
> > >We've been thinking about this at Taglibs, where we're
> > >getting geared up to start versioning our releases.
> > >Here are our preliminary guidelines for versioning;
> > >perhaps they'll stimulate some discussion (outright
> > >adoption is good too :):
> > >
> > >
> > >http://jakarta.apache.org/cvsweb/index.cgi/~checkout~/jakarta-taglibs/HOWTO
> > -RELEASE?rev=1.4&content-type=text/plain
> >
> > +1 on a straight adoption (it's same approach we uses aswell).
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> +1 on stealing (err, adopting :-) the good work here.
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> > Cheers,
> >
> > Pete
> >
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> One technical note that affects both Commons and Taglibs is the fact that
> CVS branches are global to an entire repository. Therefore, if one taglib
> (or Commons package) creates a branch "rel2", then nobody else can use
> that name. We might want to think a little more about the long term
> impacts of this little detail.
>
> Craig
Darn good point. It doesn't appear to be a showstopper, but it's
certainly worthy of consideration!
