Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3588: ImageMagick-6.7.9-9

2012-10-03 Thread Jeremy Henty
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've wondered, in the case of the kernel, whether is would be beneficial to release the drivers as a separate tarball on a different release schedule. I think that's where most of the changes occur. In an uncompressed kernel tarball, the drivers

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3588: ImageMagick-6.7.9-9

2012-10-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Henty wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've wondered, in the case of the kernel, whether is would be beneficial to release the drivers as a separate tarball on a different release schedule. I think that's where most of the changes occur. In an uncompressed kernel

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3588: ImageMagick-6.7.9-9

2012-10-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: --- Em seg, 1/10/12, BLFS Trac escreveu: Changes (by bdubbs@…): * status: new = closed * resolution: = wontfix Comment: I'm going to mark this as wontfix. IM manages to do a sub-point (major.minor.point-subpoint) release way too often. It feels

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3588: ImageMagick-6.7.9-9

2012-10-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 05:41:49PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Perhaps 6.7.10-0, and then only next point release? Yes, 6.7.10.x, 6.7.11.x or 6.8.x.x, etc. rant I'm getting a bit tired of some of these packages developers that don't really understand software engineering. One major task

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3588: ImageMagick-6.7.9-9

2012-10-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: Release early, release often. For major projects, weekly -rc releases, and stable point releases as-necessary, is a good thing. The release early, release often approach can be overdone. How is a typical user supposed to know when a change is significant? I have no

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3588: ImageMagick-6.7.9-9

2012-10-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 08:38:48PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Release early, release often. For major projects, weekly -rc releases, and stable point releases as-necessary, is a good thing. The release early, release often approach can be overdone. How is a typical

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3588: ImageMagick-6.7.9-9

2012-10-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I don't follow systemd, no doubt some of the changes are important for the project, but without monitoring it I can't guess which, if any, impact the udev part. I'm still hoping that standalone udev will gain traction. That would require a major attitude change from