On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:20:33 -0700, Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Monday, July 16, 2012 02:07:13 deadalnix wrote:
On 16/07/2012 01:42, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, July 15, 2012 16:26:50 Walter Bright wrote:
>> Sigh. Half say we release too often, the other half not often enough.
>
> Which is actually one argument for going to a model where you have
> frequent
> minor releases which only contain bug fixes and less frequent major
> releases with the larger changes. You can never make everyone happy,
but
> by doing so, you get the bug fixes faster for the folks complaining
about
> the lack of frequent releases, and you get increased stability as far
as
> the new stuff goes, because it doesn't come with every release.
>
> I'm only against the proposed versioning scheme because I think that
we
> need to stabilize things better (e.g. actually have all of the
features
> that TDPL lists fully implemented) before we move to it. But I fully
> support moving to this sort of scheme in the long run. It manages
change
> much better, and I think that many, many existing projects have shown
> that it promotes stable code bases while still allowing for them to
> evolve as necessary.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
The proposed scheme is only a proposed scheme. Other solutions exist
that solve the problem, and if they better fit, why not ?
If someone has a better proposal, they should make it (though probably
in a
separate thread - this one's long enough as it is). I think that the
basics of
this proposal are good, and a lot of projects work that way. I just
think that
D needs to be more stable before we worry about having major and minor
releases or stable and unstable branches.
- Jonathan M Davis
I guess I just see it as differing definitions of "stable". For example,
dsimcha was here not twenty hours ago praising D for how stable it's
become.
I think this is a pretty good summation of stable in the community project
context:
http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/06/what-does-stable-mean.html
Note: We meet all criteria for stable.
--
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/
