RFC: New release for DTC?

Jon Loeliger jdl at jdl.com
Wed Dec 12 01:55:17 EST 2012


> >> >
> >> > This has been a bit of a perrenial problem.  dtc development has been
> >> > sufficiently gradual that there haven't been many obvious points for
> >> > making new releases.  dtc developers (i.e. Jon and my, mostly) don't
> >> > feel much pain from the lack of releases, since the git snapshots
> >> > generally work well (thanks to limited scope and a good testsuite).
> >> >
> >> > I wonder if we should move to a model of just making a release every 3
> >> > or 6 months from whatever happens to be in the tree at the time
> >> > (barring obvious known breakage, of course).
> >>
> >> yes please.  even just a version that uses datestamps would be fine.
> >> -mike
> >
> > Fine by me.
> 
> So is this happening? I agree a regular release would be useful, and I
> think it has been about 18 months since the last release.

I'll apply a couple 3 outstanding patches (from Kim Phillips)
and get around to tagging a new release.  If you, or anyone else
have patches or functionality you want in this release, please
post those patches now.

jdl


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