On Freitag, 5. November 2010, Einar Rünkaru wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Simeon Völkel <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > Personally speaking I would prefer a release rather soon for the
> > following reasons:
> >
> > 1. a "new version" should encourage distributions to build new packages
> > which should decrease the time that has to be spend for answering "where
> > can i get (the latest) packages for XY"
> >
> > 2. a "new version" should encourage users to look for "new (old) bugs",
> > hopefully resulting in new tickets on bugs.cinelerra.org. Adding a new
> > version there makes it easier to keep track of what is still an issue.
> > (I'm aware that many old bugs aren't fixed yet, but we won't fix them all
> > in finite time, so waiting for all bugs being fixed would prohibit the
> > release of > 2.1 forever ;-))
> >
> > 3. a "new version" might encourage someone to contribute again some
> > patches, as he/she sees that something is going on with cinelerra. (e.g.
> > gentoo's patches weren't forwarded to our ML at some point as nothing
> > happened)
> >
> > 4. releasing other bugfix releases (e.g. 2.1.6) should become "easier" to
> > do when a first step is done.
> >
> > Hannes, Monty, Einar, what do you think? (as you've contributed most of
> > the new patches)
>
> I agree with all your points.

I agree as well.

> Meanwhile I found some more simple bugfixes in my tree:
>
> commit:7f217eaa516881840a9d80549d6aedce5e012da3
> Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:19:29 +0000 (16:19 +0300)
> Changed return type of Thread:get_tid()

Good.

> commit:443a5c8c3565304ea542430a6eba9f76c619bc96
> Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:53:17 +0000 (22:53 +0200)
> Fix mmap errorcode

I have this one already.

> commit:c59748bc756686d5bd9f51e2374c108e9ef28d8e
> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:03:07 +0000 (21:03 +0200)
> Fixed v4l2 detetection

This removes #include <linux/time.h> from the test. What's wrong with it? This 
#include was introduced because the test failed due to a missing typedef or 
something. It may not today, but does it hurt?

-- Hannes

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