[Chicken-users] Re: Chicken release policy

[Aleksej Saushev]

Peter Bex <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:43:48AM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote:

>> You still don't get it.  The whole point is to have distributed files 
>> _properly_
>> labelled, the existance of two distributed bundles with the same name
>> "chicken-x.y.z.tar.gz" should be avoided. User should be free from dealing
>> with policies manually, it is up to policy to make him free and safe to 
>> choose
>> the same download directory for releases, either stable or unstable ones.
>> 
>> Because that is the natural way, user expects this behaviour, and it isn't
>> a good way to enforce user reading release policy, if the only thing he wants
>> is to check, whether some bug is fixed in later development snapshot.
>
> I'm still not entirely convinced this matters.  However, it's pretty trivial
> to append a date to the snapshot tarballs, so why don't we just do that?
>
> If you download chicken-3.0.1.tar.gz you get the release, and if you
> download chicken-3.0.1-20080313.tar.gz you get the chicken release snapshot
> of 3.0.1 made on March 13th, 2008.  That way it's not necessary to update
> the version just because a release was made of one particular version.

Well, this solution is really nice. It is simple and clear. My vote for this.


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