On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 14:51 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2008 02:23:27 Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 18:51 -0500, Dean Roehrich wrote: > > > The latest version of quilt is 0.46, issued in ...October 2006? How many > > > of us are actually using that? I'd bet most of us are using something > > > from late 2007 or even from this summer. There are command changes > > > (rename<>revert), various bug fixes,...and I'm in a situation where it > > > would be helpful if I can say that quilt was not abandoned 2 years ago :) > > The cvs log will show you that. > > > I'm for it. > > Creating release tarballs just doesn't add value: the snapshots are not > better > than taking the latest cvs version.
Except they are when you are packaging quilt for a distro. Distros like to know what upstream source tarball was used in the package, and pointing them to a hand-rolled CVS snapshot tarball is a bit harder than pointing them to an official release. At any rate, thanks! josh _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
