On 2007-12-03 19:04-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > Should we do a bug fix release based on the recent symlink/build > problems that Andrew has fixed?
I may have missed some e-mail or something, but did Andrew's symlink fix help the Mac OS X guy who was having so much trouble building 5.8.0? If you do decide to do a bug-fix release in the stable series, the right way to do it is to copy, e.g., tags/v5_8_0 to tags/v5_8_1 and then port the trunk fix to tags/5_8_1. The reason for this requirement is you don't want to get recent experimental changes in the trunk version into your stable bug-fix release. Now to answer your question, our trunk version is usually stable enough so that an individual user can always use that without too much trouble until our next development release comes out. Putting out a stable bug-fix release is also some extra work for you and some extra work for those of our users who decide to download it and build it. Therefore, my own feeling is you should do bug-fix releases in the stable series only for bugs that affect a significant fraction of our users. But that is just my opinion, and "significant fraction" is also subject to a lot of interpretation. Anyhow, if you decide to go ahead with a stable bug-fix release for this particular bug, I certainly won't complain. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
