Re: Final steps for release 0.14.3

[Kurt Maute <kurt maute us>]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 21:07 +0200, Maurice van der Pot wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:04:02AM -0400, Kurt Maute wrote:
> > > So if you have a good reason why I shouldn't commit this, now is the
> > > time to let me know. Otherwise I'll be committing this sometime this
> > > week.
> > 
> > The only reason I can think of is the timing of when the new version of
> > libxml and libxslt will be available in the various distributions (i.e.
> > as packages - not compile by hand).  There's a lot of updates and fixes
> > in 14.3, and it might be nice to let folks on current distribution
> > levels take advantage of those.
> 
> Of all options I can think of, releasing 0.14.3 with the requirement is
> the only one I can justify. Without it we cannot say the problem has
> been fixed and I really don't want to release another version with this
> bug. 
> 
> The distributions will have to do whatever testing they normally do for
> libxml2/libxslt and will only be able to include Planner afterwards.
> How much delay that causes depends on the distro.
> 
> Gentoo won't be a problem and neither will Fedora (because Daniel
> Veillard is a dev there). Ubuntu plans to have a new release only in
> October, so to get things to build there it would be best if the first
> person to build 0.14.3 from source would create a Personal Package
> Archive (https://help.launchpad.net/PPAQuickStart) with libxml2, libxslt
> and Planner in it. I have no info on other distributions.
> 
> Incidentally, I was told on #ubuntu-devel that if I found someone
> willing to maintain Planner on Ubuntu, I should send them to jcastro and
> he would help them go through the process of becoming an Ubuntu
> developer.
> 
> Anyway, IMHO we should just go ahead with the release. People who can't
> get it through their distro in time will still have the option to compile 
> and install libxml, libxslt and planner with --prefix=/home/user/local.

Sounds like you've thought it through pretty thoroughly.  No arguement
from me.

That PPA looks pretty cool!

-- 
Kurt Maute <kurt maute us>