[Xcircuit-dev] Re: XCircuit developing cycle

[R. T. E. <ti...@mu...>]

Dear Zvezdan,

> I've sent you yesterday the patches for the port of XCircuit to OpenBSD.
> Now, I have a question.
> 
> On the download web page you say that the latest source is recommended
> over the "stable" version.  However, it has changed three times in the
> last 20 days.  That means that there were either lot of bug fixes or
> addition of new features (that can potentially lead to the new bugs).
> 
> Since the ports in OpenBSD CVS are upgraded regularly between the
> 6-month releases, I would have to check in the new versions of XCircuit
> couple of times per month, which is perhaps a load on CVS that is not
> necessary.
> 
> Also, there's always a potential danger of checking in the version with
> a bug just before the official OpenBSD release, and than people who use
> only releases (not the -current) would be stuck with it for the next 6
> months or even longer if they don't upgrade at every release.
> 
> In that light, would it be better to follow the "stable" version of the
> port?
> 
> Another option would be to make a stable and snapshot version of the 
> port and have people "pick their poison".

You're absolutely right.  Since I'm now working on the next batch of
fairly major changes in xcircuit, I think I'll stop here and backtrack
a bit.  Version 3.4.7 is probably the most stable version;  I can
patch that up with some of the bug fixes of revisions 8 and 9 (including
your last patch), and renumber 3.4.10 as 3.5.0, where the 3.5 branch
will then be the development version while the 3.4 branch will be the
stable version, to be updated only with necessary bug fixes, and not
with further development.  It won't be done today, but hopefully it will
be done by Monday or Tuesday.

					Regards,
					Tim

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