Re: [WWdevel] What branch to use for development

[Davide P. C. <dp...@un...>]

>> This is really for Sam, I guess, but I thought we should all know the
>> answer:  what branch of the CVS tree should we be using for
>> development work these days?  I've been putting jsMath changes in
>> HEAD, and letting Sam deal with backports to wherever they are
>> supposed to really go, but I'm not sure of that is the way it is
>> supposed to work.
>
> That's how it's supposed to work. You can give me a hint in the CVS
> commit message if you think something should be backported, otherwise
> I'll use my own judgment or ask you.

OK, thanks for the clarification.  Glad I haven't been going about it  
the wrong way.

> HEAD is for bleeding-edge development -- perfect for large  
> architectural
> changes or disruptive user-visible changes. rel-2-3-dev is the 2.3.x
> development branch, which should only get bug fixes and small feature
> non-disruptive enhancements.

Very good.

> Pretty soon I'm going to create rel-2-4-dev from the current HEAD. I
> think that should probably happen before you start with the  
> MathObjects
> work. No need to wait on that though if you want to get started, I can
> branch off of some arbitrary point, before you started with that. Then
> we can merge the MathObjects changes back in after things have  
> calmed down.

No problem.  There may be a few small changes first, before I start  
the larger-term structural changes.

Davide