Hi Dan,
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>easy, there have been no "releases". I've just periodically been making
>snapshot releases which are releases in the sense that I verify that
>'make distcheck' works for me which usually catches glaring errors in
>the build system and makes sure that the snapshot tarball will have all
>the files needed to build. Also I've been branching the sources and
>setting the version number to the snapshot date. Other than that I have
>not been doing anything extra.
>
>Some day we might distinguish between true releases and snapshots but so
>far we haven't.
I haven't done a "release" of gEDA/gaf since, oh, 1998. I sorta
like the whole dated snapshot approach, since the version number presents
some sort of a tie to reality (since it's a date, you know how old the
software is). I haven't found any major problems/objections with this
approach.
-Ales
