Hi Alan,
Releasing regularly new versions of the package is always good: it instills
confidence in users that they are using a software package that is being
actively developed and maintained.
However, I do think that the approach of having bug-fix branches is essential
when making regular re
Hi Tom:
On 2016-09-22 13:54+0100 Tom Schoonjans wrote:
> In the scenario I am suggesting, you would just end up with a new
branch that starts at a tag and will contain bug fixes only. It will
never need to be merged into master as it will consist of commits that
were cherrypicked from master.
>
Hi Tom:
At the end of this I have a question concerning using our preferred
workflow at github (assuming someone wants to take responsibility for
such a move).
But first, you need some background. PLplot used CVS for a long time,
then SVN for a long time, and then fairly recently made the transi
Hi Tom:
You have opened up a lot of interesting topics for discussion here
which I am going to answer in separate e-mails with separate subject
lines.
In those separate replys I will also quote some key questions that
Hazen has already asked.
More later...
Alan
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Alan W
Hello again,
> We have been trying to maintain a linear history with git following the
> process explained in the README.developers file. I think that the fork and
> pull-request system would break this?
Not necessarily, you can ask people submitting a PR that they rebase against
master. You c
On 09/22/2016 04:58 AM, Tom Schoonjans wrote:
>
> Thanks for the fast reply.
>
> I appreciate that you want to make sure that all newly implemented features
> have been properly tested before making the next release. Surely we can all
> benefit from that.
>
> However, since a new release is at le
Hi Alan,
Thanks for the fast reply.
I appreciate that you want to make sure that all newly implemented features
have been properly tested before making the next release. Surely we can all
benefit from that.
However, since a new release is at least a month from now, I still would like
to urge
On 2016-09-21 14:22+0100 Tom Schoonjans wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I was wondering if a new release of PLplot could be made soon, as the current
> release does not build with CMake 3.6.x? The fix for it is currently in
> master.
>
> Many thanks in advance and best regards,
Sorry, but we are not yet
Hi all,
I was wondering if a new release of PLplot could be made soon, as the current
release does not build with CMake 3.6.x? The fix for it is currently in master.
Many thanks in advance and best regards,
Tom Schoonjans