Re: [Axiom-developer] Version numbers and merging improvements

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> Well, the cvs and arch trees currently represent the Gold archive.

And I hope they will be gone once trunk turns into Gold. Then everything 
is on sourceforge. Who would bother with checking out via CVS. Any 
reasobable programmer has by now heard of SVN and will certainly be able 
to install it on his machine and get the Axiom sources via SVN.

Why should we bother an invest time in keeping Arch and CVS as mirrors?

> agree that normal procedure would be to "tag" the release and generate
> tarballs from that, but my understanding was that we were going to
> maintain the arch archive as "the" gold archive and the cvs mirror in
> sync with the arch archive.  Has that changed?

If there is a maintainer (you?) who has too much time, I don't care if 
someone maintains as many mirrors as possible. I won't and I will ignore 
them.

> > We should just make a note in the archive that this particular
> > revision is the release revision. That's it.

> Well, I suppose the function that prints the Axiom header could be made
> to check if the branch and build used to make the binary correspond to
> a known release, and if so print the release number.

You seem to have too much time. Lucky you.

Ralf