On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 12:21:34 -0600 (CST) Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2022, Daniel Herring wrote: > > > > In my opinion, frequent slow releases are way better than rare fast > > releases. > > That may be true for some software, but libtool has a really good > test suite so if tests pass, there is high confidence of quality for > the systems it has been executed on. It is abnoxiously painful to > build libtool starting from git sources so hardly anyone is testing > the unreleased code. > > Pushing out a release assures that the mechanics are working and that > it is even possible to create a release. > > Users are much more apt to report bugs and patches against software > that they can easily use. Yep! Especially given that distros are obviously going to be careful with testing libtool, even more so given they (we!) know development is resuming after a long haitus, and we're checking which of our patches are still relevant, etc. It's not like it'll be bumped downstream without anybody doing due diligence :) best, sam
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