> 1) Make the HEAD compile. Artur Wronski has recently posted some patches to > accomplish this. > 2) Put a simple > README_THIS_IS_PROBABLY_NOT_THE_VERSION_YOU_WANT_TO_PLAY_WITH.txt > in the > HEAD pointing to the current active branch.
I agree with Hes, especially on his 2nd suggestion. I get exactly what you guys are doing, tagged the old stable branch, new unproven stuff is on HEAD, etc., etc., but the unfortunate status quo all open source projects I can remember digging around in the source for is that everyone works on HEAD and only (severe?) bug fixes are done on maintenance branches. No real active development is done on branches, so they are mostly ignored. Hence when I ran into the compile problems on HEAD, I looked for some READMEs, finally found Wronski's patch, did my Message-ID mailet, and now have HEAD+Wronski's patch deployed in production (granted a non-mission-critical production) and working well. A README_FIRST.txt in HEAD would have pointed me to the other branch very quickly. Thanks, Stephen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
