Re: Versioning

[Casey Allen Shobe <rivyn mailandnews com>]

Ahh yes, I was getting cvs and cvsup mixed up - cvsup is nice for stable
version downloading because it's very quick and gets file by file so if you get
cut off it's no problem, although in linux w/ wget, it's not a problem anyway
with direct download --> disk writing instead of stupid "temporary internet
files" cache - I love being able to play a downloading MP3 and put it in a
loop... anyways.

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Rivyn

On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> On Sam, 01 Apr 2000 15:07:23 Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
> > One does not have to be a beginner to appreciate a stable release ;) - 
> some of
> > us just like using cvs to download things ;) - now I haven't been 
> following the
> > discussion, so maybe you are talking about a "more stable" development 
> version,
> > but AFAIK you are talking about having a copy of the last stable 
> release
> > available via a cvs tree.
> 
> Nope. I think code in cvs should be for development or 
> harakiri-users like me (who dont care if their mail client crashes 
> during mail-composing ;)). All other users should have access to a 
> stable release (stable = gone through bugfix/prerelease period. Not 
> = version numbering greater 1.0). If one starts thinking (and 
> someone actually did, whom I was replying to) of dividing cvs into 
> a stable and a development branch where "normal" users would be 
> able to download stable versions from the stable branch, one is 
> pretty much in the situation where the development cycle has to be 
> shortened. That is what I suggested: balsa 0.7 should have been out 
> since a few weeks/months or whatever. CVS branches are (AFAIU) for 
> where you want to be able to bugfix and release minor versions 
> while major code rewrites or breakups are done in the development 
> branch.
> 
> Hope that clarifies things.
> 
> -Knut
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