Re: Release Ideas

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/28/2015 08:19 AM, Carnë Draug wrote:

> I though that the plan for the 4.0.0 release was also to distribute official
> binaries for Windows and Mac.  Is this still part of the plan?  I was under
> the impression that this was going well for Windows at least.

Yes.  I think we have Windows mostly handled at this point, though there 
will be some details to take care of, like dealing with the sources so 
that we properly comply with the GPL for our binary release.  I don't 
know what to do about OS X except to say that it is not an officially 
supported platform, at least until someone steps forward and can do the 
work to provide some kind of easy-to-install binary package.  My 
apologies if this has already happened as I'm not aware of one.

> Making two separate releases with a small time interval between them just to
> keep this promise will be the same as breaking it.  I feel that the promise
> behind the two releases is about the time.  Doing this is just breaking the
> "spirit of the law".

I don't see it that way.  The gui-release version would be available for 
those people who still need the deprecated functions that have been 
removed from default.

> I still think that merging the gui-release and default into a single release
> may be a good idea.  We can just bring back the removed functions from the
> history and remove them on the following release instead.

I would really prefer to not have to do that work just to keep a 
"promise" that we imposed on ourselves.

jwe