Re: [Vala] A suggestion for future releases
On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 07:58 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 00:06 -0008, Jim Nelson wrote: > > My broad point is, dot releases for stable versions of Vala can cause > > large changes downstream. In the future, could these changes be more > > geared toward critical fixes? > > Yes, we're aware of that and we are typically more careful in stable > branches. The 0.22 branch was branched from master later than usual and > the changes you've mentioned above were pushed to master between 0.22.0 > and the branch point. As we usually branch early, the committers likely > didn't realize that these changes would affect a stable branch. Just one thing to remember, for future reference: git can create a branch starting at any point in history directly. For example, $ git branch 0.22 0.22.0 $ git checkout 0.22 (or equivalently, but shorter) $ git checkout -b 0.22 0.22.0 would have created a new branch "0.22" which branches off from the commit that was tagged with the "0.22.0" version, and won't include any of the commits to master which were intended for 0.23. -- Calvin Walton ___ vala-devel-list mailing list vala-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-devel-list
Re: [Vala] A suggestion for future releases
Hi Jim, On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 00:06 -0008, Jim Nelson wrote: > My broad point is, dot releases for stable versions of Vala can cause > large changes downstream. In the future, could these changes be more > geared toward critical fixes? Yes, we're aware of that and we are typically more careful in stable branches. The 0.22 branch was branched from master later than usual and the changes you've mentioned above were pushed to master between 0.22.0 and the branch point. As we usually branch early, the committers likely didn't realize that these changes would affect a stable branch. Regards, Jürg ___ vala-devel-list mailing list vala-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-devel-list
Re: [Vala] A suggestion for future releases
On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 00:06 -0008, Jim Nelson wrote: > Geary 0.4.1 (released a little over a week ago) fails to compile with > Vala 0.22.1. This is due to two changes in Vala: > > * The libnotify binding change This change broke gnome-break-timer as well. > I'd like to request that in the future changes in stable dot releases > be more conservative in nature. Seconded. Cheers, Michael signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ vala-devel-list mailing list vala-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-devel-list
