RFC: New release for DTC?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 23 August 2012 21:36:25 David Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 08:15:39PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Following advice from Jon Loeliger, I would suggest that a new release
> > of DTC be tagged and packaged.
> > 
> > It is important for some projects to rely on a released version, rather
> > than use a random cset from the repository. Comes to mind, the automated
> > build-systems, such as buildroot.
> > 
> > Of course, I can help, if need be! ;-)
> > 
> > Are there any others who think that a release would make sense?
> 
> 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
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