On Sep 3, 2007, at 08:47, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2007-09-02 22:40:01 +0200, Anders F Björklund wrote:
N_Ox wrote:
zsh is now quite old and its maintainship has been dropped.
I'm the current maintainer of zsh-devel and I think it does not
deserve
its -devel nature.
Should we delete zsh and rename zsh-devel?
Upstream still lists 4.2.6 (2005-12-05) as the "stable" series and
4.3.4
(2007-04-19) as the "development" series, so it seems a good idea
to keep
the current naming ?
BTW, I don't really like the names "stable" and "development" since
they don't always mean what they really mean. In particular, one may
think that the development version is more buggy than the stable
version. In the case of zsh, this is currently the opposite.
Also "development" is misleading when at some point, a developement
version becomes a stable version. For instance, what if the successor
of 4.3.4 becomes the stable version 4.4.0, so that 4.3.4 is out-of-
date
and 4.5.0 isn't out yet? The user of zsh-devel should expect an
upgrade
to 4.4.0 instead of staying with the out-of-date 4.3.4.
What portname suffix would you propose instead of "-devel"? "-devel"
seems ok to me -- it indicates that this will install the version
currently being developed by the developers, as opposed to the
version that is stable and has already been developed.
We could use "-beta" but that would be inaccurate for many software
projects where that's not the term they use to describe their
development software.
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