-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 3. Juli 2004 15:56 schrieb Andrew John Hughes: > On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 11:31, Andrew Haley wrote: > > Andrew John Hughes writes: > > > Well, my suggestion would be that the branches are more for > > > the benefit of users rather than developers. Correct me if > > > I'm wrong, but the japitools comparisons suggest that 1.1 is > > > just about supported. This would seem to be a solid base to > > > give to those who want something to work with, at least for > > > the time being, as a Java replacement without having to wonder > > > about holes. As far as developers go, I would expect focus to > > > mainly stay on 1.4 as it is now, with appropriate patches that > > > also cover 1.1 being added there. However, if you think that > > > would be too much effort, then I can see your point to an > > > extent. I do think there is something to be said for giving > > > users something more stable though, rather than the kind of > > > random implementation guarantees we give now. > > > > Sure, but the problem is that branches, unless tended carefully, > > will wither. If people wish assiduously to maintain a separate > > 1.1 branch, that will be fine. But that should be an addition to > > current development, not an alternative. > > > > Andrew. > > Agreed. The idea of having a stable branch (1.1 being the first > iteration) of this is to give developers who want to use Classpath > something concrete to work with. I don't foresee such a branch > needing anything more than the odd patch from the main development > branch (currently targeting 1.4, although maybe 1.2 may be a better > target if we want a faster release cycle). The stable branch would > form the basis of a solid release version, matching a certain API > and not gaining new features, only bug fixes. Quite a few projects > have this concept of a release version and a current development > version (Linux and GTK+ would be obvious examples, as this is > distinguished by the odd/even release numbers)
We should try to reach a stable state before we discuss about stable and development branches. Michael - -- Homepage: http://www.worldforge.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA57HLWSOgCCdjSDsRAjlKAJ9mo6SVd57Wek8galc566J929XsAwCfWM4M e1uM88Hs9xL5PG9Yg+DmiXE= =In14 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
