Re: Release Policy

[Adam Fedor]

On Nov 8, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Stefan Bidigaray wrote:

> On Nov 8, 2007 1:07 PM, Adam Fedor <address@hidden> wrote:
> On a related note.  It appears that the gui release will rely on base
>  >= 1.15.1
>
> So what does that mean?  Does gui 0.13.0 not work with base  
> 1.14.1?  (Just saw the new Library Compatibility page on the wiki,  
> so yes)  If that's the case, I don't think it's a good idea keeping  
> things the way they are then.  I generally make the Slackware  
> packages that are on the FTP and what this current policy means to  
> people packaging GNUstep is that they HAVE to follow GNUstep  
> unstable no matter what since if you want to have a complete  
> GNUstep environment you need base + gui.

I haven't tested it myself, but I would guess at the least you would  
see some compiler warnings. And perhaps a few coding methods would  
not work (although it appears they would not work in the previous  
release either, so perhaps that doesn't matter).   I could try to  
backport changes that are ABI compatible to the 0.12.0 branch, but as  
the last release was over 6 months ago, that would be a lot of work.   
I think we just need to get into the habit of releasing more often so  
perhaps it would not be so much work.