Am 11.04.2005 um 05:00 schrieb Stephen Deasey:
I was hoping to make a release now-ish, mainly because I think the
cache and protocols stuff will be a little more destabilizing than the
changes made so far. It would simply provide a somewhat stable
baseline for use/testing while HEAD moves on.
I was going to call it 4.99.0, I wasn't going to make any public
announcements to Freshmeat or anything. A tarball would be cut and
added to the file downloads section. CVS would be tagged. How about
it?
Regarding a final release, I agree a lot more needs to be done. The
protocols stuff would be a defining feature. Docs are required. If
we want other people to use it some kind of website will be needed,
too. I don't know how long any of this will take.
Periodic snapshots seem like a good idea.
OK. the only thing I'm afraid of is to support branches.
At the moment it does not matter since we're the only ones
using the beast. But, if you get other people on the wagon
you must then take this maintenance burden.
So, my reasoning was to get a feature-loaded state where
we can sit on for some more time. But, as said, for our
private use, I personally do not care much, as long as we
have a working head.
One reason for the release would be of course a stable
known state leaving the head branch for some interesting
testing...
Well, if you like... go and make the release. I believe the
CVS is in a good state now.
Zoran
