Re: release policy

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Oldish thread..

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:30:32AM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 10:35:32PM CEST:
> >>Charles Wilson wrote:
> >>
> >>>Huh?  Right now (on cygwin) the shared library built by 1.5.x libtool is
> >>>"cygltdl-3.dll"  (e.g. current - age == 3).
> >>>
> >>>Somebody somewhere already bumped the c:r:a numbers in HEAD because
> >>>libtool-HEAD on cygwin creates cygltdl-6.dll.  So which previous
> >>>**releases** of libltdl are you trying to distinguish from, here, Ralf?
> >>
> >>My thoughts too at first, but checking 1.9f current was already 6, and
> >>this is an incompatible change with 1.9f.
> > 
> > 
> > First this, and besides I was referring to this policy in HACKING:
> > | * Double check that libltdl version number updates weren't forgotten
> > |   since last release (they should be updated in CVS along with commits
> > |   that require it so that users can work with CVS snapshots).
> > 
> > which, I believe, stems from the fact that somebody needed post-1.5
> > stuff but with 2.0 not in sight.
> 
> Hmmm... good catch, I hadn't spotted that, but...
> 
> > So while we are at it, it might be a good idea to remove the
> > parenthesized part..
> 
> Yes, I agree.  It seems wrong to churn the numbers so fast.  I don't
> think it is too much to expect people who track CVS to have to deal
> with regressions and experimental apis that later get fixed to restore
> backwards compatibility.  Can you fix that please?

Applied this patch to CVS HEAD.

Cheers,
Ralf

        * HACKING: Only update libltdl version info before release.

Index: HACKING
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/HACKING,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -r1.20 HACKING
--- HACKING     17 Sep 2005 07:29:01 -0000      1.20
+++ HACKING     25 Sep 2005 10:22:46 -0000
@@ -368,9 +368,8 @@
   since last release (they should be updated in CVS along with commits that
   require it so that users can work with CVS snapshots).
 
-* Double check that libltdl version number updates weren't forgotten since last
-  release (they should be updated in CVS along with commits that require it so
-  that users can work with CVS snapshots).
+* Update the libltdl VERSION_INFO in Makefile.am for changes since the last
+  release.
 
 * Update the version number in configure.ac.
   See http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/contribute.html for details of