Re: [Plplot-devel] Wish list for the release--various thoughts.

[Joao C. <jc...@fe...>]

On Friday 18 January 2002 2:54 am, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jo=E3o Cardoso wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 January 2002 17:15, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
=2E..
> > [....] My not yet commited plimage() changes and related
> > functions are yet alpha. At this point I'm afraid of commiting my
> > changes, as perhaps the current cvs plimage() is more stable than
> > mine.
>
> But the point is this does not affect anything other than x20c.  It wou=
ld
> be a much tougher decision if you were fiddling with the very inner cor=
e of
> plplot, but you are not.

I'm not sure about that. Working with plstrm.h, plcore.c, plbuf.c and xwi=
n.c=20
might break others things.

>  I hope to get out the next release within a month
> or two so if you make a mistake with plimage now, it will soon get
> corrected.  So I am inclined to say that if x20c still works on your
> platform with all your uncommitted changes, then go ahead and commit th=
em.
> However, if you are not comfortable with that, that is fine as well.
> Ultimately, of course, it is your decision.

I have checked out a clean cvs and test x20c; it's more stable than my=20
current cvs, so I will not commit my changes for now.
=2E..

> > What I mean is that 5.1 is too definitive for the current status.
> > As you say, we are not many, and can't afford the pressure of a
> > faulty major release.
>
> My understanding of release traditions is quite different.  Patch versi=
on 0
> of anything is never expected to be reliable.  Compare kernel 2.4.0 wit=
h
> 2.4.17 or KDE 2.2.0 with 2.2.2, for example.

But it is not "intencional". We *know* that, given the nature of things,=20
version 0 is unstable, no matter the efforts developpers made. But if you=
=20
look at KDE, e.g., the 0 release is quite usable and is followed shortly =
by a=20
bug correcting release. Gnome has even a shorter history release.

But as Geoffrey said, you are the boss in this matter, and I'm glad you a=
re=20
:-)

Joao