Re: Prerelease of 0.94 is out

[Hans Breuer <Hans Breuer org>]

At 22:50 09.07.04, Lars Clausen wrote:
> Trying hard to decrease the time between releases, I have now put out
> 0.94-pre1 at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/dia/.
>
> Major new features include highlighting of objects when dragging
> connectors onto connection points, 5 new shape sets, connection possible
> between layers, hexagonal grid, Cairo renderer,


> WMF writer for Unix,
sorry, but that's only part of the story :

2004-05-24  Hans Breuer  <hans breuer org>

        * plug-ins/wmf/Makefile.am : finally compile the wmf plug-in
        under *NIX, too. [If you want something done, do it yourself ;-]
        * plug-ins/wmf/wmf_gdi.[hc] : some more stuff to catch up
        with wmf.cpp's GDI usage
        * plug-ins/wmf/wmf.cpp : compile even without HAVE_WINDOWS_H,
        [For the moment it does not much more than compiling, i.e.
        the produced WMF files are invalid, if not created on windoze.]


> a new combined persistence system.  There's also some other stuff plus
> many polishings, bug fixes and leaks.
>
> This release I'm trying with the release in a CVS branch, to not stop
> development.  Which means that fixes need to be applied in both
> branches, and translations should be copied over, too.  It'll be
> interesting to see if the translations can move easily between branch
> and trunk...

May I suggest a sligtly different approach ?
It goes as follows :
- declare a feature/string/deep freeze at the appropriate time for the trunk
  [IIRC feature freeze was about two weeks ago]
- for every (pre-)release just do a tag
- at least until release candidates all bugfixes go directly to the trunk
(if some new development really must be done during a freeze it can
easily go into a specific branch and be merged after the thawing HEAD.
Like it was e.g. done for the Gtk2 port ...)

        Hans

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