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From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-02 04:42:37


Vladimir Prus wrote:
> What is our policy regarding bugfixes for 1.34.1? For example,
> I know of a couple of bugs in build system -- one that makes
> it impossible to build 1.34.1 on cygwin, and another is that
> "define=FOO"
> on command line does not work. First was fixed even before 1.34.1,
> but not included in release, second was just fixed.
>
> Now, it's being a month since 1.34.1, and it does not seem like
> 1.35 is going to be released very soon, so how do we most
> conveniently provide such fixes to users? Having to manually grab
> those from trunk is not very nice.

Well I hope 1.35 doesn't get delayed too much, but what I've done in the
past is issue a library-specific "hot fix": either place it in the vault, or
in the usual sourceforge release system.

HTH, John.


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