Re: Is GTK required for 22.0? No. [was: XEmacs 22.0 Release Target]

vin> As long as I have a tag to use, I don't care when I get moved vin> off the main. Unless there's some subtlety I'm missing..... SJT> Not that I know of. But getting the tag in place correctly will SJT> require that you finish up whatever you're doing at the moment, then SJT> cvs tag release-21-1, then update -r release-21-1, then start applying SJT> stuff again. AFAICT, _you_ can do this anytime you want and just SJT> announce that people have to use the tag from now on. You have to do more than do a plain tag, you have to (also) make a branch tag. SJT> But if somebody else does it, I could easily see somebody else going SJT> "oh, yeah, I was gonna move the HEAD today," cvs tag, cvs do lots of SJT> stuff to move HEAD, right in the middle of you doing a bunch of SJT> pre-release commits. Eek. SJT> The other thing is that the last time there was serious discussion of SJT> moving HEAD, somebody who claimed to have done it said we could expect SJT> to have to take CVS down for a day or so. I really think the SJT> Honorable Stable Release Manager might have a thing or two to say SJT> about _that_. :-) I don't like to restrain developers. So for example, currently there are no scheduled CVS commit freezes for beta releases. However, moving the CVS branch will quite likely mean a day of no-commits and perhaps many more days of preparation by the cvs administrator. SJT> Also, Tor doesn't say, but I wonder what happens to CVS history data SJT> when you do this. Depends on how you do this. But expect to lose the coherence of CVS history, unless deep magic is invoked. I mean deeper magic than the relatively straightforward method Tor describes.