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

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-30 05:01:41

"Victor A. Wagner Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]> writes:

> At 09:24 2006-01-27, you wrote:
>>"Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>> > David Abrahams wrote:
>> >> "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> >
>> >> The lack of atomic changes to the trunk and to branches makes it very
>> >> difficult to capture a point in time when everything is passing.
>> >
>> > Exactly - that's the problem.
>>
>>That is solved by SVN.
>
> I wouldn't bet on it (well capturing the instant is how SVN works), 
> but it's irrelevant anyhow.
> if you only "release" what on HEAD it doesn't matter than you cannot 
> synch w/ branches.

I keep asking, if you only release what's on HEAD, how do you do point
releases?

And anyway, why this obsession with HEAD?  In SVN, it's just another
branch.

> 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.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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