Carlos R. Mafra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 at 12:26:55 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: [...] >> I'd rather get a response from Carlos regarding the possibility of >> rolling an actual release. In general I'm not excited about the idea >> of having a FreeBSD port that consists of a snapshot of the git repo >> at a random moment.
> Window Maker(-crm) is meant to be stable, so you can take today's git > with no fear despite the last (random) 0.94.0-crm tag being 17 months old. > If I tag 0.94.1-crm today because 0.94.0-crm is already "too old" (in an > arbitrary sense of age) would that make the decision to use it easier? > And what if next week somebody finds and fixes a bug and I update > the git repo? By definition the new "random moment" would be better > than plain 0.94.1-crm, so why care about the tag? > The git repo is never in a "random moment"; it's always in a state with > fewer known issues and annoyances. Hello, if wmaker was just an application, that might be enough. But there are also shared libraries included whose API/ABI has frequently changed. /They/ need a release process to be useful. The fact that GIT head might have two minor bugs less today than yesterday but an incompatible ABI (without a soname bump) is not a solution for a distributor shipping binaries linked against this library. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
