Jaroslav Hajek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Søren Hauberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> tor, 19 02 2009 kl. 12:23 +0100, skrev Schirmacher, Rolf: >>> This might come close to the naming convention of "the other brand": Calling >>> a release by a unified release number (R12, R13) or date (R2008-1) >>> independent of the versions of all the components, but allowing for some >>> canonical reference. >> I can see the benefit of this from a users point of view. If Octave had >> time-based (rather than feature-based) releases then I think this might >> work. As things stand right now, then I don't think this is a good >> approach though. I have fixed a bunch of bugs in the image package since >> the last release and I would like to make a new release so that users >> aren't affected with these. But if I had to wait until a new release of >> Octave was made then there is a chance that I had to wait for a fairly >> long time. The problem is that I don't know when the next release of >> Octave is. I think individual package maintainers should be able to make >> releases whenever they think it is appropriate. We're all volunteers and >> it can be hard to make us all do some work at the same time. >> >> But that's just my 2 Danish Kroner... >> Søren >> >> > > I agree with Soren. When I fix bugs in a package, or add > functionality, I'd like these changes to be accessible to users in a > short time (not just through the SVN). >
I, too, agree with Soren here. The flexibility is *the* killing advantage against the other brand, where bugs are only fixable by updating to a full new release. By keeping the package system flexible and not monolithic, updates and fixes can be published in a package and the user can install and use a new version of, let's say image, regardless of octave releases. benjamin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
