On Thursday 28 June 2007, Ales Hvezda wrote: > I also thought about highly encourging that development > snapshots would never end up in a binary distribution and > that only stable releases would get packaged up (in whatever > distribution be it debian, netbsd, fedora etc...). However, > I'm not about to attempt to enforce that.
That's what I do for gnucap. The development snapshots have version numbers that look like dates. The "stable" versions have a major.minor numbering system. I discourage binary packaging of development snapshots, but do not enforce it. I figure that development shapshots have a higher risk, and anyone using it should realize this, and compile it themselves. This is especially true with recent versions, gradually moving to a plug-in system. Sometimes a development snapshot deliberately has some high risk code, because I want feedback on it. A while back I considered recommending a development version when 0.34 was too old, 0.35 was not ready, and the development version was a clear improvement. Such cases are rare. _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
