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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin setup.exe bugfix release 2.510.2.2
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:11:51 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin setup.exe bugfix release 2.510.2.2
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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > What about the two patches for the problems Eric reported?
>
> Oh, and about the "disable version warning switch" patch:
>
> It seems a bit much to add a switch for what is mostly a developer-only
> feature, when you can just hand edit setup_version.c if need be. Though
> I could see it coming in handy.
Well, I initially figured it'd be a developer-only feature, but then
realized that it would also be useful for people who have a "working"
setup.exe and don't want the latest (like in the recent problem with
crashes). Besides, suppose setup lives on a network drive, and updates
from a local mirror -- there may be version check problems there too.
> However, I think the larger question is do we *really* need a release
> branch? I only did it this time because it seems to be established
> procedure, but I see no real reason to continue it.
Absolutely.
> I guess it made sense in prior times when there were destabilising
> changes being made on HEAD, but is this something that's still relevent?
Well, destabilizing changes *are* made to HEAD occasionally, but testing
is the way to deal with those... I'd suggest tagging each release, but
only converting the tag to a branch for back-ported fixes from the trunk.
That way, regular releases will have the trunk versions, and only the
patched one get the 4-digit branch versions. I don't think we need a
specialized release branch.
Igor
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