Re: branching in packages?

Ilya> Currently cvs certainly contains package version tags. But Ilya> these tags do not specify whether the version is stable, and Ilya> thus useless for the task described above. If there's a version tag, it's stable as far as we know. If the package maintainer believes there's an issue, they tell Norbert, who holds back on any release until it's resolved. Some package maintainers keep exceptionally unstable packages in the unsupported tree (eg, Ville Skyttä's vc sync). The prerelease cycle is mostly intended to catch packaging bugs, not Lisp code bugs. If you want to avoid the pre-releases, then M-x list-packages will tell you current recommended version as long as you have no pre-release archives in the list of download hosts. Ilya> As for keeping my branches in your CVS - thanks for Ilya> invitation; all my code certainly can be released to the Ilya> public. If you want us to take *any* precautions to not break your code, publication of your code is absolutely necessary. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.