RE: [Cppunit-devel] 2. configure.in queries

[Bastiaan B. <bas...@li...>]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Steve M. Robbins [mailto:ste...@vi...]
> Verzonden: Friday, July 06, 2001 3:54 AM
> Aan: CppUnit Development
> Onderwerp: [Cppunit-devel] 2. configure.in queries
> 
> 
> Would anyone object to the following two changes to configure.in?
> 
> 1. remove AM_DISABLE_STATIC
> 
> Rationale: libtool-based packages typically build both shared and
> static libs by default (configure has --disable-static &
> --disable-shared flags for the installer to customize to her taste).
> The principle of "least surprise" dictates that we stick to that
> unless there is a compelling reason for NOT building static
> libcppunit.a.  Is there such a reason?
> 

Not that I know of. Let's remove it and see what happens :-)

> 2. bump the version string to 1.5.6
> 
> Rationale: to differentiate CVS cppunit from the last released
> version.  

But then how do you differentiate between CVS and the upcoming 1.5.6? 
Basically we have 2 choices: 
1) update the version number immediately before a public release.
2) update the version number immediately after a public release.

1) is what we (I) do now, and it is also the method described in the
autoconf/automake docs.

However 2) makes more sense when your project has a main branch for
development and release branches for bug fixes. So far we have not needed to
branch yet, but when we do need to we'll have to adopt this approach anyway.
So let's update to version 1.5.6, and work towards a release of it. Then
immediately update the version 1.5.7 and maybe straight to 1.6.0 if the
feature set changes to much.

Does anyone have showstopper issues for a 1.5.6 release? 

Bastiaan


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