On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 20:28 -0700, chromatic via RT wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2008 20:05:22 Bob Rogers wrote: > > > Agreed, but doesn't this info really belong in README? Then DEVELOPING > > really only needs the middle paragraph, which is unchanging, and there > > would be one less file to have to update when cutting a new release. > > > > Or is there some purpose in keeping this information out of the hands > > of mere tarball-downloaders? > > DEVELOPING mostly exists so that people who check out interim releases run > extra tests by default and people who download only official releases don't. > > There may be a better way to accomplish this.
OK, how about this: 1. As with Bob's suggestion, DEVELOPING is reduced to just the unchanging middle paragraph. It is then merely a flag -- removing that function as well is better left to another RT. 2. The information about the next release moves to NEWS, where I think it belongs. As soon as a release is cut and functionality starts to be committed, we should start updating NEWS. A simple change to the format of the header line makes it serve the duty previously done by the first paragraph in DEVELOPING. See the attached patch. -'f
diff --git a/DEVELOPING b/DEVELOPING index 66d50d4..b1d5aee 100644 --- a/DEVELOPING +++ b/DEVELOPING @@ -1,11 +1,5 @@ # $Id$ - THIS RELEASE: Parrot 0.6.2 2008.05.20 -PREVIOUS RELEASE: Parrot 0.6.1 2008.04.15 - -This file should only exist in development distributions. Delete it +This file should only exist in development distributions. Delete it (and its entry in the MANIFEST) before packaging Parrot up for a CPAN or other release distribution. - -'THIS RELEASE' is the goal of the current development. -'PREVIOUS RELEASE' is the release that has been last let out into the wild. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d740ad8..bb6ba56 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ # $Id$ +New for next release (2008-06-17, version undecided) +- Configuration + + expanded step gen::opengl +- Miscellaneous + + ported OpenGL/GLU/GLUT bindings to Win32 and more Mac OS X variants + + generate OpenGL/GLU/GLUT bindings by parsing system headers + New in 0.6.2 - Specification + updated and launched pdd28_strings.pod
