CVS branch-2-0 R.I.P.

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Fellow Libtoolers (if you're reading, that means you!),

I still have reservations, but am otherwise somewhat convinced that

to do at this juncture.  Unless someone yells to the contrary real soon
now, I see no reason to continue to maintain branch-2-0 from here on in.

In due course, I think it is fine to release 2.0 from HEAD (or a new
release branch from future trunk HEAD to be precise) even with known
minor bugs, provided that we list them in the release announcement.  In

often", I say we identify the actual showstoppers, and release 1.9h from
HEAD with just those fixed.  There is a list of showstoppers on my wiki
at http://tkd.kicks-ass.net/GnuLibtoolProject/RoadMap.

If 1.9h is well received, I believe we should release 2.0 soon after
(minor bugs and all), and then work on the remaining regressions for a
quick 2.0.2.  In order to prevent any further slippage, until 2.0.2 is
out there we should reject all patches, and commit changes only for:

 - bugs
 - regressions
 - documentation
 - testsuite improvements
 - and maybe MSVC support, iff we can confine changes to this system.

Speak now, or forever hold your peace.

Cheers,
    Gary.
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dropping development of branch-2-0 in favour of HEAD is a reasonable thing order to speed the release, and in the spirit of "release early, release Gary V. Vaughan ())_. gary@ {lilith.warpmail.net,gnu.org},[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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