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Re: Stable branch will freeze.
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Marius Vollmer |
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Re: Stable branch will freeze. |
Date: |
15 Mar 2002 20:54:44 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:
> From: Marius Vollmer <address@hidden>
> Date: 15 Mar 2002 00:29:06 +0100
>
> I just made the lonely decision to be more rigorous about the "stable"
> branch_release-1-6 branch.
>
> We need to be much more rigorous about really keeping the stable
> branch stable. From now on, only release critical, uncontroversial
> fixes will be allowed. I intend to be firm on this. We are not
> getting anywhere without restraining us from putting new stuff into
> the stable branch.
>
> Of course, it is already controversial exactly what is release
> critical. I'll just be deciding this. :)
>
> sorry, it sounds like you have some delusions of absolute control here.
> please get well soon (or demonstrate your position by removing my write
> privs so i can unsubscribe from guile development and use in good
> conscience -- TIA).
Please reconsider. It would be sad to lose your contributions, but I
think we could manage.
> Consequences: the guile-snarf changes need to be brought back to a
> state where guile-snarf is completely compatible with the last
> guile-snarf that has been installed. It can add features, but must
> not remove any. Also it should define SCM_MAGIC_SNARFER in addition
> to SCM_MAGIC_SNARF_INIT when pre-processing the C file. The fact that
> SCM_MAGIC_SNARFER is defined should be documented, while
> SCM_MAGIC_SNARF_INIT should not be documented. Thien-Thi, I can make
> these changes if you want me to. Please feel free to hack on
> guile-snarf in the HEAD branch. I really think your work on the
> snarfer is important, please don't get me wrong.
>
> i don't want you to make these changes because the changes do not
> support encapsulation and robustness, but i suspect you'll make them
> anyway.
Yes. I'm not sure that you have the same changes in mind as I do,
tho. I would just be making sure that the default (without any -o) is
that the output is written to stdout.
> in the future someone will complain and someone will decide they
> need to be changed back. will you do those changes then, too?
No, they will already be in 1.7. ;-)
Re: Stable branch will freeze., Evan Prodromou, 2002/03/16