Re: [Fink-devel] what to do about the stable branch

2008-06-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Jun 12, 2008, at 8:43 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: > Greetings, fink developers. > > There have been a number of threads over the past few months about the > fate of the stable branch. I want to start a new one, in which I will > make a different proposal than the ones made in the past. > > F

Re: [Fink-devel] what to do about the stable branch

2008-06-13 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: [] > Now it is true that there hasn't been a bindist in two years, and > there has never been one for 10.5. I want to add an argument to this discussion that I haven't heard recently, although it has (or should have) been staring us in the face for a long time: Ther

Re: [Fink-devel] what to do about the stable branch

2008-06-13 Thread Daniel Macks
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:43:11PM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: > Greetings, fink developers. > > There have been a number of threads over the past few months about the > fate of the stable branch. I want to start a new one, in which I will > make a different proposal than the ones made in

Re: [Fink-devel] what to do about the stable branch

2008-06-12 Thread Max Horn
Am Fr, 13.06.2008, 02:43, schrieb David R. Morrison: > Greetings, fink developers. > [...] > > So here's my proposal. When the pango-cairo-branch is merged back, we > put all of the *active* files from that branch immediately into the > stable tree. Now this is going to cause problems for stabl

Re: [Fink-devel] what to do about the stable branch

2008-06-12 Thread Jean-François Mertens
Fully agree, basically, only small comments below .. On 13 Jun 2008, at 02:43, David R. Morrison wrote: > There have been a number of threads over the past few months about the > fate of the stable branch. I want to start a new one, in which I will > make a different proposal than the ones made

[Fink-devel] what to do about the stable branch

2008-06-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Greetings, fink developers. There have been a number of threads over the past few months about the fate of the stable branch. I want to start a new one, in which I will make a different proposal than the ones made in the past. From my point of view, the stable branch might well be named the