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Re: Outstanding issues with current DLL?


Hi!

Thursday, 08 March, 2001 Egor Duda deo@logos-m.ru wrote:

>>> >Those around me always complain the release version of Cygwin
>>> >DLL is updated too often, buggy and unstable. Please consider
>>> >more careful release management.

ED> i think separating 'stable' and 'development' branches can help a bit.
ED> i  don't  know  about  Chris  and  Corinna and others, but speaking of
ED> myself,  i  almost  always  can  say, whether my patch is a bugfix and
ED> should  go  to the stable branch or feature addition, and should go to
ED> the  development  one.  i understand that maintaining two branches and
ED> merging  changes  is  extra pain, and that fixing some bug may require
ED> some  major rewrite of signal or tty handling code, but, nevertheless,

^^^^ it'd be nice to have such branches in the cvs.

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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