Re: [boost] 1.34 Release Plan - an alternative view

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-31 22:09:52

At 10:53 2006-01-31, David Abrahams wrote:
>"Victor A. Wagner Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> > At 03:01 2006-01-30, David Abrahams wrote:
> >>"Victor A. Wagner Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]> writes:
> >>
> >>I keep asking, if you only release what's on HEAD, how do you do
> >>point releases?
> >
> > what's the "meaning" of a "point" release anyhow?
>
>The "meaning" is a release that's exactly like some other release
>except for the addition of bug fixes.
>
> > release numbers (names) are a marketing concept (so the collateral
> > material can be produced).  They've _never_ had any relevance to
> > software (other than some loose conventions which caused more
> > problems than they were worth)
>
>Yes, numbering is irrelevant.  I didn't mention numbering.  Please
>address the question with that in mind.

and exactly what does "point" refer to if NOT the separator between 
numbers?  for example 1.33.1

> >>And anyway, why this obsession with HEAD?  In SVN, it's just another
> >>branch.
> >
> > In SVN, iirc, "numbers" are even further removed from any meaningful
> > relationship for a "release"... but as for the "obsession" it's
> > actually just a desire to keep people's fingers out of the regression
> > testing process.  The more you make people mess with things, the more
> > likely you'll have an error.  One of the points of automated testing
> > is that you warp the development system so the test system doesn't
> > have to be massaged every time something changes.
>
>We can easily automate what branch people are testing.

we haven't thusfar

> >> > I've been saying for a little over a decade that dropping the "state"
> >> > from CVS was a mistake and this hammers it home more than anything
> >> > I've seen...but it's gone.  One trusts that the Subversion folks
> >> > weren't as blind.
> >>
> >>Sorry, I don't know what you mean.
> >
> > http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~tichy/

very odd, I get access denied also, but I copied/pasted it from my 
browser this morning.

>Access is forbidden.
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