[darcs-users] Heads-up: darcs 2.4 release coming

Jason Dagit dagit at codersbase.com
Thu Feb 25 18:52:55 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Ben Franksen
<benjamin.franksen at bessy.de>wrote:

> Reinier Lamers wrote:
> > I want to let you know that I am beginning to work on the final 2.4
> > release, which would then happen some time this weekend. Compared to
> > 2.3.99.2, this would contain the remove-nonempty-directory (issue1749)
> fix
> > as the only extra patch.
> >
> > If I have again skimmed over a very important bug that _has_ to be fixed
> > to make an acceptable release, please let me know.
>
> See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/70614 and my
> follow-ups for what I consider a release-critical bug; because it means
> that after upgrading to 2.4 (as it stands) you can no longer use darcs for
> keeping track of changes to projects in the size-class of rtems, something
> that worked, if somewhat painfully, with 2.3.1.
>

I think this is an important regression to address, but at the moment we're
quite behind schedule on the 2.4 release.  As far as I know all crash
related regressions are fixed with 2.4.  Performance is our current focus,
but I question how critical this regression is relative to the other
enhancements, bug fixes, and what have you.

If I were the release manager, I would offer you the following compromise:
  * We release 2.4 now and;
  * when we find a fix for this regression we apply it to 2.4 and release it
as 2.4.1.

How does that sound?

Note:  I'm not the release manager and so even if you like this idea, it
doesn't mean Reinier will go for it :)

Jason
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