Re: [boost] Should we provide hot fixes?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-25 18:39:10

on Mon Aug 25 2008, Christian Larsen <contact-AT-dword.dk> wrote:

> Christian Larsen skrev:
> [SNIP]
>> I.e. now testing should be performed on trunk and
>> releases/boost_1_36. For the next major release it would be trunk and
>> branches/boost_1_37.
> That should of course have been branches/boost_1_36...
>
> Btw, regarding the argument that some developers don't want to
> maintain multiple branches, there's no problem. They can keep
> developing on trunk as always and their changes will automatically
> make into the next major release, when that is branched off from
> trunk.

It's been a major bone of contention here recently, but releases are not
branched from trunk.

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Dave Abrahams
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