[OpenJade-devel] Re: CVS vs. release version

[Karl E. <ke...@su...>]

Peter Backes <rt...@he...> writes:

> Can you give some facts why experiments are better done on a branch 
> than on the trunk in the openjade/OpenSP setting?

Maybe, it is just a matter of personal taste.  I like the way as the
Emacs CVS works: CVS HEAD isn't stable but you can always assume it
will run; at times, it is a little bit risky to run it, of course.

The branching mess here started because the HEAD was too flaky.  Nobody
was able to add new features and thus we resorted to a stable branch.
That's how it looks too me judging from now and here.  Of course, once
things have happened, you will always know better ;)  I do not want to
blame noboby -- we just will have to find a way to improve openjade
without wasting resources.