From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: The 1.6.1 release. Date: 01 Apr 2002 15:26:03 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ofi5qm4a.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87r8mxs5t8.fsf@tyrell.bad-people-of-the-future.san-francisco.ca.us> <87lmc8fp24.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017673862 10184 127.0.0.1 (1 Apr 2002 15:11:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:11:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ttn@glug.org, evan@glug.org, guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16s3SX-0002e2-00 for ; Mon, 01 Apr 2002 17:11:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16s39C-000210-00; Mon, 01 Apr 2002 09:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.21] helo=s1.uklinux.net) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16s2pi-0006TA-00; Mon, 01 Apr 2002 09:30:54 -0500 Original-Received: from portalet.ossau.uklinux.net (IDENT:root@ppp-3a-37.3com.telinco.net [212.159.132.37]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g31EUX718373; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:30:34 +0100 Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net.ossau.uklinux.net (neil@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net [192.168.1.3]) by portalet.ossau.uklinux.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA09763; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:29:26 +0100 Original-To: Rob Browning Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:255 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:255 >>>>> "Rob" == Rob Browning writes: Rob> Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: >> good question. >> >> IMO, the more branches there are the more PITA it is to maintain them. >> this suggests that to cut ourselves slack we should delay branching >> until things are *determined* to be stable (as opposed being *declared* >> to be stable). Rob> I have no problem with this. This is what I'd intended for the next Rob> release. Although I'm probably a prime culprit (because of the elisp work in unstable), I also agree with this. It's a major pain having to work with multiple branches over an extended period. (Especially when that period includes deciding to merge all the documentation directories and then separate them out again - d'oh!) Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel