On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
In an attempt to get 2.2 out the door, I'm making the minimal changes necessary to close release blocker bugs in the style of the existing code. Part of the reason 2.2 is several years late is from trying to make everything perfect.
I agree, and this statement is particulary meaningful since it comes from you. ;-)
Libtool has moved to a "Cathedral" model of development. I don't think it was always that way. There was a time when libtool was pretty rough around the edges and users did part of the testing, with lots of subsequent bug reports. The "Cathedral" model plus a demand for absolute perfection has certainly made the 2.2 development cycle the longest in libtool history. It is now even longer than the multi-lingual branch which became 1.5. Regardless, I do think that when the 2.2 release does finally occur, its quality will be far higher than any previous libtool release.
Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
