One thing that might be good for this sort of thing is tagging the version just prior to the breakage, that way people can just download the tagged version rather than the specific revision (in effect the same thing). I.e. you can periodically tag a release as latest semi-stable release i.e. before any big changes go in. E.g. before Daniels reworking of the tuning and before this live tv breakage. Also before the panned convertion to mythui (through that sounds like it may not be as disruptive). This is an easy way to stop people whinging when trunk is broken, they just get the semi stable release.
Paul On 11/17/05, Ivor Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael T. Dean wrote: > > > > I don't know about Isaac, but if it were my project and I saw this many > > people complaining about my not branching, I would purposefully delay > > the completion of the LiveTV overhaul. Maybe I'm just mean, but... > > > Yeah you're just mean. :) > > I think one of the problems is that its just too easy to grab source > from svn and build it... people just get into the habit and forget the > whole point is that they are accessing development source code. > > Daniel's right, that with hindsight a branch might have made sense since > it took longer than expected..... on the other hand the longer it takes > to finish such a pervasive change on a separate branch the more of a > nightmare it becomes to merge it back in. > > After all it's not as if the change was made with no warning. > > Seriously though, no-one who is complaining is going to setup their own > svn server.. (and that is a rather daft idea:) but there's nothing > stopping them svn-ing to the revision before the live tv update and then > applying just the later commits that they're interested in. > > Cheers, > -- > Ivor > http://www.ivor.it > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
