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

Ben Franksen benjamin.franksen at bessy.de
Thu Feb 25 19:38:09 UTC 2010


Jason Dagit wrote:
> 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.

Right, there's a trade-off.

> 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?

That sounds like a very practical solution. (Maybe add a warning to the fine
print of the release notes?)

Cheers
Ben



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