Why Sander said that branches and tags are the same ?
If they were the same why would be there a directory branches and a directory 
tags ?
Phil

Le Thursday 15 June 2006 16:43, Youness Alaoui a écrit :
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:04:29 -0400, Arieh Schneier
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 1) now we have to update the version in the amsn file.. what should it
> >> become? More generally, what will this release be?
> >> 0.96rc1 followed by rc2, then rc..., then 0.96
> >> or 0.96 followed by 0.96.1, etc
> >> i would say the second, because if we don't have critical bugs, ...
> >
> > I agree, I think the second, because that is what we have always done
> > before.
>
> I don't... an RC, is a release candidate, from the very start, we had an
> RC in mind, we were 'going to release with known bugs'.. we can't do that
> on an official release.. so this IS an RC, not a release... I do accept
> the 0.96, 0.96.1, etc... numbering, the bugfixes thing, etc... but not for
> this release... this is an RC, and should not be considered anything else.
> So, we release this as 0.96.RC1 or 0.96RC1,  whatever you want... the
> autoupdater should consider it as 0.96b.. which means > 0.95 and < 0.96 ..
> right ? do tests if you want.
> once we get the RC1 and maybe other RCs out of the way, we can release
> 0.96, then if you want and if needed, 0.96.1 and 0.96.2, etc...
>
> if you don't want to go through the 'RC' process, then you should have
> said so a few weeks ago, or months ago, so we would have fixed those huge
> critical issues we have now... if everyone wants it the way you said, then
> the release will have to postponed, in order for us to teak our brains
> into thinking "damn, it's a production release, we must get all the bugs
> out, before... it's not an RC...", then release...
>
> >> 2) are all binaries updated?
> >
> > Why not?
>
> we should still check, we should recompile, just in case.. or use svn to
> see the revision number of the binaries against the rev number of each of
> the sources...
>
> >> 3) do we create a tag for this release in svn? (A tag and a branch are
> >> the same in svn, technically) So does it have any benefits to create a
> >> tag, when we already have a 0.96 branch, which we can check out by
> >> revision number, if bugfixes later are done in this branch.
> >
> > Make a tag on the main branch? That is pointless because that isnt the
> > 0.96,
> > and we arent going to be integrating changes (accept for bugfixes if we
> > plan
> > to release a 0.96.1). So I think we don't need to tag it.
> >
> >
> >
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