On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:36 AM, David Baelde <david.bae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a few more words about not rushing: It's sad that we have to tell
> several people to use SVN. But I'm convinced that there are also many
> people happily using released versions. Most importantly, using SVN is
> not as difficult as Sam implied: compiling liquidsoap is difficult.
> Between compiling the tarball and SVN, the only difference is
> literally svn co and bootstrap. What is difficult for somebody
> learning liquidsoap is to find bugs! So we should not "release
> whatever we have": if we know of bugs or odd behaviors in our code, we
> should fix them!
>
The thing is more that distributions tend not to package beta versions, and
it is much more simple to install a package than to build tarball or svn. If
we agree that liquidsoap beta can be packaged (in Ubuntu / Debian), I'm fine
with it but then I don't really see the difference with a release...
> Anyway, I think we're in agreement that we'll start with a second beta
> release. Also, Sam proposed that we do an intensive session on
> cleaning up I/O code, and Romain actually started doing changes there.
> This is all great, and I'm happy to release as soon as we reach a
> statu quo on I/O. I'll participate in any discussion on that topic,
> and I'll join coding as soon as possible -- but that may not be before
> the second half of this month...
This sounds good!
++
Sam.
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