state of 1.5.x

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Thomas Schmidt wrote:

> * Tobias Grimm schrieb am 30.10.07, um 19:40 Uhr:
>> VDR 1.5 is still subject to many changes, which would make it hard to
>> maintain it in unstable. I wouldn't suggest to introduces VDR 1.5 in
>> unstable before 1.6 isn't at least in sight. Besides this there is still
>> some work in 1.4 going on at the moment. But maybe uploading 1.5 to
>> experimental would be an option.
>>
>> @Thomas: What do you think?
>
> My opinion is almoast the same like yours, the only option i see
> currently would be experimental, but even in experimental i fear that
> it would be very much work to keep all plugins compatible with new
> vdr-versions, especially since we are allready more or less upstream
> for some plugins (vdr-plugin-weather for example).

Ok, I'll probably test 1.5 myself soon to see how stable it is. I know 
it's a pain to keep everything in sync..

>>> ps. not to start a flamewar, but have you thought about using a
>>> distributed SCM like git or such insted of svn?-)
>>
>> I don't see a reason for using git. SVN is working pretty fine and is
>> well supported by svn-buildpackage.
>> (And all our internal build-tools are tailored to SVN!)
>
> Well, allready experimented a little bit with git and i really like
> it, but i also do not see a reason why we should change from svn to
> git in the near future, svn seems to work very fine for our current
> needs.

heh, point taken :)


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