Re: gEDA-dev: gEDA/gaf stable version 1.0.1-20070626 released!

[al davis <ad136-at-NOSPAMfreeelectron_dot_net>]

On Thursday 28 June 2007, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> I also thought about highly encourging that development
> snapshots would never end up in a binary distribution and
> that only stable releases would get packaged up (in whatever
> distribution be it debian, netbsd, fedora etc...).  However,
> I'm not about to attempt to enforce that.

That's what I do for gnucap.  The development snapshots have 
version numbers that look like dates.  The "stable" versions 
have a major.minor numbering system.  I discourage binary 
packaging of development snapshots, but do not enforce it.

I figure that development shapshots have a higher risk, and 
anyone using it should realize this, and compile it themselves.  
This is especially true with recent versions, gradually moving 
to a plug-in system.

Sometimes a development snapshot deliberately has some high risk 
code, because I want feedback on it.

A while back I considered recommending a development version 
when 0.34 was too old, 0.35 was not ready, and the development 
version was a clear improvement.  Such cases are rare.




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