Re: [PanoTools-devel] branching libpano

[Daniel M. G. <dmg...@uv...>]

 Bruno Postle twisted the bytes to say:

 Bruno> Daniel M. German wrote:
 >> 
 Bruno> 2. Freeze 'pano12' at 2.8.3, fork a library called 'libpano' which 
 Bruno> will not be binary compatible and which will probably change again 
 Bruno> in the future.
 >> 
 >> If we take this approach I suggest we use 2.8.1. (tag 'release-2-8-1')
 >> 
 >> Or better, move the library as it was just after 2006-05-06 18:22.  I
 >> checked the CVS logs and this is the last commit before I moved
 >> PTcommon.h into the library:

 Bruno> I thought that binary compatibility had been maintained until the 
 Bruno> day before I released 2.8.4?

 Bruno> Either way, I propose creating a CVS branch for the 
 Bruno> backwards-compatible pano12 and changing the files in the trunk so 
 Bruno> the library is built as pano.dll, libpano.so etc...

I feel it would be better in the long term to create a different
module (pano12) instead of a branch. It will make it easier to
administer and manage each. It is the way Apache handles its branches
and it seems to be very effective.

dmg


 Bruno> Though I'd like to hear from people who use the library first as 
 Bruno> they need to make changes too, Max, Pablo, any comments?  (Pablo is 
 Bruno> away at the moment).

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