[gobolinux-devel] [gobolinux-commits] tools/Scripts/Functions OptionParser

[Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:09:18 -0200
"Hisham Muhammad" <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Oh, I wasn't aware of that people use the CVS like that. If that's so,
> > maybe releases should be made more often, to ensure that bugfixes are
> > straightened out for the "stable" releases, instead of having to rely on
> > CVS to have things sane?
> 
> You're right, we should make more frequent releases. I think I
> expressed myself badly: I run CVS "to keep things stable" not because
> it is more stable than the last release, but to keep in check that no
> bugs were added since the release for when we prepare the next one.
> There's no problem in keeping support for the new option parser
> halfway implemented in CVS though (I wouldn't expect changes to all
> scripts to be comitted at once), but it's nice to let CVS users know
> beforehand when things may break and not be taken by surprise. (Maybe
> I was too cautious with this one as it doesn't break anything if
> people keep using options the old way -- it should be fully converted
> before the next release, though).

Seems that cheap SVN branches are the way to go. :)

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez     <rnsanchez@{gmail.com,wait4.org}>
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