RFC: New release for DTC?

[Grant Likely]

On Thu, 30 May 2013 11:45:23 -0600, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 08/23/2012 12:15 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Hello All!
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> I'd love to see a new release. This would for example allow the U-Boot
> project to say "dtc vXXX is required to build the DT files contained in
> U-Boot", which might make agreeing on allowing the use of new dtc
> features in U-Boot easier. While this could simply be done by referring
> to a specific git commit ID, release versions or tags probably carry
> more weight. Tagging a release might also act as a specific trigger for
> distros to pick up and carry the new version.
> 
> Does it make sense to simply tag the current git HEAD as v1.4? If so,
> can we do this?

If a new release can be done in the next week or so, then I will use
that to update the in-kernel dtc version.

g.