[PD-dev] how to maintain "main" 0.38 and 0.39 branches together?

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Miller Puckette hat gesagt: // Miller Puckette wrote:

> I'm almost ready to stop banging on 0.38, because the changes that seem most
> urgent now are of a sort that will break a lot of stuff (updating various
> audio and MIDI interfaces, for instance!)
> 
> I think therefore that I should make a 0.38-main branch, so that I can continue
> to apply "safe" bug fixes to it while I apply the unsafe ones to "main" for
> incorporation into 0.39.
> 
> This way, eventually, we/d have 0.38-main, 0.39-main, etc, branches, along
> with the current "main" branch which would be perpetually on the path to the
> next release...
> 
> Does this sould like a good structure?

I think, yes. I just discovered the "CVS Best Practices" document at
http://www.magic-cauldron.com/ which also recommends something like
this at:
http://www.magic-cauldron.com/cm/cvs-bestpractices/index.html#section1-branchmerge

I only wonder, if "main-0.38" would be a better name than "0.38-main",
because that would be more in sync with the naming for "devel_0.37"
and would allow an easy alphabetic sorting by branch type. However 
"0.38-main" and "0.38-devel" would allow sorting by development
status ...

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__