Re: [dev] [st] Release planned?

From: Christoph Lohmann <20h_AT_r-36.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:56:37 +0200

Greetings.

On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:56:37 +0200 Joerg Jung <mail_AT_umaxx.net> wrote:
>
> > On 11 Aug 2016, at 16:17, Christoph Lohmann <20h_AT_r-36.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:17:30 +0200 Paul Menzel <pmenzel_AT_molgen.mpg.de> wrote:
> >> Dear suckless folks,
> >>
> >>
> >> st 0.6 was released in June 2015, that means over a year ago.
> >>
> >> Since then, there were another 76 commits included into the master branch.
> >>
> >> ```
> >> $ git describe --tags origin/master
> >> 0.6-76-g308bfbf
> >> ```
> >>
> >> Are there plans to get release 0.7(?) out, so that users, not building
> >> from repository, but from release source archives, can profit from them?
> >
> > There shouldn’t be users not building from the repository.
>
> The release source comes out of the repository, so everything fine... eeeh ;)
>
> Seriously, you really want to start again the same stupid discussion about releases and
> version numbers, which last time led to splitting the mailing lists into dev and hackers?
>
> Let’s summarise what we have:
> There are users who build from release sources and there is nothing wrong with it.
> There are also packages available for most major distributions build from the release
> tarballs, and users which use these packages, again nothing wrong with it.
>
> If you do not want this, you may really want to remove all existing tarballs and releases,
> from suckless.org to state clear that these are not wanted and to avoid the above, but
> why did you provided them in the first then?
> ... and even if you do not provide them any longer, people will likely start rolling/providing
> and tagging own releases. For various reasons there are people which expect and want
> releases.

You are using Apple Mail. Please stop talking. It’s not useful at all.


Sincerely,

Christoph Lohmann
Received on Thu Aug 11 2016 - 16:56:37 CEST