-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sunday 25 April 2004 18:18, Andy Bakun wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 10:01, David J. Goehrig wrote: > > Andy, > > > > The current version in CPAN 2.1.0 is the latest > > available, and the 1.20.x branch on chromatic's > > is the latest of the old pre 2.x branch. > > Okay. But I'm still confused as to how chromatic is
I am probably leaning myself out of the proverbial window here: Apart from that, the snapshot on CPAN was done by Dave, and was ahead of the version from chromatic. I believe (read: dont know) that chromatic now added most of the stuff from the CPAN version. In short: it is a complete mess and needs cleaning up. I always advocated having a development branch, were all the current work is put into, and which releases regulary (daily, weekly, monthly, pick your time) development snapshots. And from time to time one of them makes it as a stable snapshot. The stable one then stays *frozen* (it's stable, after all). Work is *always* done on the development branch, except for urgent, real bugfixes in the stable version that do not change (read: break user programs) anything. In addition, the stable snapshots could have even numbers, the development ones odd. This makes sense, and is done in other projects (like Perl now). The current state is that dave takes chromatic's[0] works, fiddles with it a bit, releases it as his own, then leaves chromatic to "backport" his changes. In the meanwhile, chromatic works on *his* branch and adds things that are not yet in Dave's version. As I wrote: a mess which can partly be explained that both sides want to (or can) work only on *their* branch. I hope that this can be solved somehow. Best wishes, Tels [0] AFAIK Dave works alone, but chromatic is only the most active of the rest of the bunch. I just used his name as an example - no offence meant! PS: The version v1.20.3 is something I am responsible for, I forked SDLPerl because I disagree with Dave's working model, back then (long story short). After Dave disappered, other people picked up my (unfinished) work and hence sdl.perl.org was borne. Then Dave re-appeared. I am not sure if he currently has net access at all, which complicated matters further. - -- Signed on Sun Apr 25 20:56:19 2004 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "Where shall I put you? Under H, like Hot, Sexy Mama?" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. iQEVAwUBQIwMMncLPEOTuEwVAQEDhAf9GcoNHWsgavAeBlTXcjXw7u2KepCWllVw pn9KN1iG3AV2mBSu2ZiZPvLaIDo/trCVY1G1l0P9cJ2QSOQ8MyTCAp2y4DTH2lBA CyZbxs637FNWgUe7xG2BbHq05H85UuzGArmvWfEg7cQI4ZZyuEyLcXWRb+GsqSqR 2tOZUP3iJVOw+Vp8D7d7q05Wumf9orAbcN6LoTm9e4++ct4fhDDMFr/kN7gTT2dG oovyC9cfVRtVxz3197qJJEW/KlWM2pM97dsVSaN6dpjN/vsN6QSaU9F+7O6UuvMl P0p1SXj6CJKBsCkPNtw4iLRMS7hbLDgVSBdasj5R7qz4C1RN8YYBJg== =qjT/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
