On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 12:43:51AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 12:41:03AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 12:15:36AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:45:53PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > > Maybe, maybe not. This work only changes the inner structure of > > > > the parser yet and has few user visible changes (some rarely > > > > triggered quoting issues). > > > > > > Any chance we could at least get that done though? It seems daft not to. > > > > I'm not exactly sure what you're refering to with "that". > > I'm referring to relesing fvwm2-stable and fvwm-2.6.7 -- that's still > outstanding, and from what I understand fvwm2-stable can be declared. > fvwm-2.6.7 is ready when the default-config is merged.
Ah. Technically, the branch is probably as good as it will get. Any changed to the "stdint.h" branch can easily be backported, but that may not be necessary. However, if we agree on this becoming the "long time stable" version we'll need something on the web page that explains: * What this release is and what future work it will receive (maintenance but no new features). * Where information about version 2 and version 3 is found. * What the plans for version 3 are. We'll also need similar information for the mailing lists. When we publish the release it must be clear that "that's it" and development of version 2 is finally over (unless steps up to take over the project). Also, a first "very unstable" development release should already be in place so that people who are interested in the new work can download and try it and don't have to use git. -- Just thinking of it, once the version split is done, it must be possible to install version 2 and version 3 in parallel. It is really possible at the moment? A couple of days ago I've noticed that each "make install" just overwrites the files in $prefix/share. Does the --program-suffix configure option work? Maybe we should make "--program-suffix=-3" the default for now? And we need to tell people how to install both versions in parallel. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt
