[Pkg-tcltk-devel] tDOM review & sponsorship

Michael Schlenker schlenk at uni-oldenburg.de
Sun May 25 10:02:05 UTC 2008


Francesco P. Lovergine schrieb:
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:23:54AM +0400, Sergei Golovan wrote:
>> On 5/23/08, Stefan Sobernig <stefan.sobernig at wu-wien.ac.at> wrote:
>>>  Héctor and I have finished the adoption and pollishing of tDOM
>>>  0.8.3 (CVS HEAD)[*], including support for shared expat:
>>>
>> Is CVS HEAD so much better than released 0.8.2? And how can you be
>> sure that CVS HEAD which I'll use to build a tarball is the same as
>> yours?
>>
> 
> I would just add that in case you absolutely need a more recent
> version it would be the case to add a group of specific patches
> to a stable release instead of using a development snapshot.
> Supporting the snapshot for years is not a great idea and we
> have tons of example currently in the stable archive that
> demonstrate that.
> 
And if you really need a recent version, why not just ask Rolf Ade (the 
tdom maintainer, added him on CC) for a real release and maybe help a 
little bit with release engineering to make it happen?

Michael



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