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

[Reini Urban]

Frank Barknecht schrieb:
> 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 ...

Don't we have "devel_0_37"?
So it would stay with the underscores and use "main_0_38" and "devel_0_38".
But best practice would be the name "stable_0_38".


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