Re: [darcs-users] darcs 1.0.6 release

2006-03-10 Thread Tommy Pettersson
Zooko wrote: * I would know that a new stable, tested, release of darcs is going to come out within about X months. * I would know that if I am using darcs version 1.a.b that I can upgrade to darcs version 1.a.b+e and get no interface changes, no added features, no performance

Re: [darcs-users] darcs 1.0.6 release

2006-03-09 Thread zooko
Tommy Pettersson wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:13:35PM -0800, Jason Dagit wrote: Perhaps we could even do something like once every X months there is a feature freeze. During the feature freeze the unstable repo is handed to Tommy for Y days (or weeks) where only bug fixes are

Re: [darcs-users] darcs 1.0.6 release

2006-03-09 Thread Zachary P. Landau
[snipsnip] I'd like to know what you think of this idea. I'm not totally against these ideas, but I do wonder what the purpose is. I understand the purpose when there is a large project, with many developers, so that they can plan. But darcs is a smaller project. Most of the submissions are

Re: [darcs-users] darcs 1.0.6 release

2006-03-09 Thread zooko
I'm definitely not trying to say that there is no value in having a more strict release schedule, but I myself do not see a big need. Perhaps you could explain why it would be helpful? In more specific terms than just saying we could plan around releases. Specifically what I was thinking

Re: [darcs-users] darcs 1.0.6 release

2006-03-09 Thread Richard A. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I mostly imagine this being a feature of use to other people (including to my clients and co-workers) rather than for myself, I think I'll fall silent on this issue and let other people have their say. I agree with Zooko. I've come to expect that bumps in the

Re: [darcs-users] darcs 1.0.6 release

2006-03-09 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Zooko, What you're basically suggesting is the creation of a new ``critical bug fixes only'' branch at every release. That's not a bad idea, but such a branch would need a maintainer. Your other suggestion is that Tommy commit to a fixed schedule of releases, rather than following his current

Re: [darcs-users] darcs 1.0.6 release

2006-03-03 Thread Josef Svenningsson
On 3/4/06, Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Jeudi 02 Mars 2006 02:01, Tommy Pettersson a écrit: But I wouldn't mind the more common major.minor.bugfix.PostgreSQL use major.minor.bugfix|improvements If major or/and minor change, this mean internal schema has changed and youneed to

Re: [darcs-users] darcs 1.0.6 release

2006-03-01 Thread Tommy Pettersson
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:08:18PM -0600, Erik Schnetter wrote: On Feb 28, 2006, at 19:06:09, Tommy Pettersson wrote: Without much surprise, here comes darcs 1.0.6, very much It seems to me that this new version identifies itself as 1.0.7pre1, not as 1.0.6. Is this an error in my setup, or

[darcs-users] darcs 1.0.6 release

2006-02-28 Thread Tommy Pettersson
Without much surprise, here comes darcs 1.0.6, very much identical to 1.0.6rc1. Important bugfixes: * Fix bug in Get --tag that produced a corrupt repository (issue67, Edwin Thomson). * Revert optimization that sometimes applied patches incorrectly and corrupted the repository. This

Re: [darcs-users] darcs 1.0.6 release

2006-02-28 Thread Josef Svenningsson
On 3/1/06, Tommy Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without much surprise, here comes darcs 1.0.6, very muchidentical to 1.0.6rc1.snip New features:lots of new nice feautures presentedI just have a question about the versioning number. Given all the great new features added to darcs in this

Re: [darcs-users] darcs 1.0.6 release

2006-02-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On 2/28/06, Josef Svenningsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/1/06, Tommy Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without much surprise, here comes darcs 1.0.6, very much identical to 1.0.6rc1. snip New features: lots of new nice feautures presented I just have a question about the