On 2/17/15, 3:01 PM, "Boris Kolpackov" <bo...@codesynthesis.com> wrote: > >See it from my POV: I have a ton of users that are pretty happy with >3.1.1. Now comes Scott and wants to cut a half-tested release just >to satisfy his immediate needs. Once you do this I will start getting >emails from my users saying why doesn't my stuff (which depends on >Xerces-C++) works in this or that situation. I don't want that.
I don't either, but to be blunt, the branch shouldn't be in the state it's in if you think it needs that much testing, because if a security issue pops up, you don't have the luxury of taking a lot of time. I completely understand your point about using the trunk, and I agree with it. It's not worth the risk. But any fixes to the branch should be very carefully looked at, in which case testing can be fairly pro-forma. I did review some of, but not all, the branch changes >Nobody is talking about months. Here is what I suggest you do: > >1. Prepare the release (with all the updates to docs, new projects, > etc). I am not going to add in project files for a compiler I can't test. That flies in the face of the exact point you made above. If you think the files on trunk work, we can add them. As far as docs go, I obviously need specifics. >3. I will test it to the best of my abilities (even though I have > absolutely zero time for it right now) and report any problems > (I will also review the changes for any ABI breakage). Do you think I do have time? >BTW, I am surprised you had to back-port so many bug fixes to the >3.1 branch. Normally anything that is backwards-compatible gets >committed to both head and 3.1. Are you sure you are using 3.1 >and not, say, 3.1.1? After about 2011-2012 or so, the branch simply died. Every fix was applied to trunk only, even when it was minor. The most risky changes are to the transcoder code which saw a large set of fixes, mostly not ABI-impacting, that only hit trunk. -- Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: c-dev-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: c-dev-h...@xerces.apache.org
