Should those of us who upgraded to 1.7.3 now upgrade to 1.7.3PL1? If we should then I think an announcement would be very important. Otherwise, how would we know there is an update?
Mark On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Wil Sinclair at 27/01/09 17:01 did gyre and gimble: >> >> We decided not to do a release announcement for patches. We've >> released them in the past for other packages like GData and didn't >> announce them then. Plus, there are no new features, bug fixes, etc., >> so it's not much of an announcement. :) If it would help avoid >> confusion, I can send a quick note to fw-general if we ever have to >> patch again. > > > Thanks for the explanation (especially Matthews explanation of > version_compare() usage - although as this is used inside Version.php, > should the actual VERSION constant not be set to 1.7.3PL1 in there rather > than left as 1.7.3 which is how the 1.7.3 release went out?) > > A quick "headsup" email would be good, although I think an official > announcement on the zf-announce should also be sent. Many users will be > using this as their only means of keeping up to date on things and surely > even a patch to a release (which, let's face it is just another way of > saying "there were some bugs that we've now patched") is worth letting > people know about? > > Col > > -- > > Colin Guthrie > gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie > http://colin.guthr.ie/ > > Day Job: > Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] > Open Source: > Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] > PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] > Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] > > -- Have fun or die trying - but try not to actually die.
