Re: in case you missed it

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik sun com>]

On 28 Jan 2002, Glynn Foster wrote:

> Okay, would it be an idea to do incremental releases, so that this type
> of a problem wouldn't exist? ie. start the releases from the bottom and
> move up the dependancy tree, which each pkg being built against an
> already released tarball? Perhaps this is a little time consuming
> though?

No - all API changes (since quite a while now) go through a full review
(unless something strange happens) so supposedly their impact is
understood and only affected module would need re-releasing.

> In any case, this isn't a huge problem since I'm quite sure that most
> people will have been regularly building against cvs HEAD.
> 

Which really is little more than a way to waste time - after all, the
platform is way past its beta, and if I remember some discussions right,
might even have been released by now and thus couldn't accrue any
additional changes.

> 			Thoughts?,
> 				Glynn ;)
> 

	Sander

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