Aah thanks for the detailed reply. I have been very concerned about the risk of breaking KDE compilation, so I welcome these changes very much. I would like that the development branch of Eigen be a place where we can experiment and break stuff without affecting our users. So, I support your plan.
Cheers, Benoit 2008/9/7 Tom Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At Tuesday 02 September 2008 16:01, you wrote: >> 1. Is /trunk/kdesupport going to be no longer recommended to build KDE SVN? >> I >> mean e.g. on the techbase page, >> http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Prerequisites#kdesupport > > That would be the idea, yes. > >> Any plan to update that page to no longer recommend to >> checkout /trunk/kdesupport? > > After we reached a descision. > >> 2. What is the difference between a "tag" and a "branch" ? I seem to see a >> lot >> of overlap between /tags and /branches. > > Technically there is not much of a difference. But in real life, tags should > be static, so no development happens in there, it just is a snapshot of a > certain state. A branch is a copy where development can happen, either a > stable tree of the application, or a experimental tree for new features. > >> 3. So what is the "tag" that I should create for version x.y of eigen: is >> it /tags/eigen/x.y ? > > yes, you should tag your software at each release. Distro's can then easily > see the changes between the released version and the development version, if > that is needed for some reason. > >> 4. We are about to release a beta version of eigen but the 2.0 final will >> have >> to wait about 6-10 more weeks. Shall I still create a tag as soon as >> possible? /tags/eigen/2.0-beta1 ? Or wait until 2.0 to create a tag? > > Tags are cheap. Tag every release you make. > >> 5. After we create a tag does that mean that we can do whatever we want >> in /trunk/kdesupport/eigen2 without risking to break compilation for other >> people? > > Yes. > >> This is related to question 1. As long as we tell people to use >> trunk/kdesupport, making tags is rather pointless. > > Yes. Time to reach a decision about this subject I think. > > Toma > _______________________________________________ > release-team mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team > > _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
