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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
October 11, 2009 11:58
Subject:
Re: future of maint
Message ID:
20091011185810.GS60303@plum.flirble.org
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 05:29:03PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > Maint currently serves the following goals:
> >
> > 1) include regression fixes
> > 2) include general fixes
> > 3) include build fixes (so it will compile on new/updated platforms)
> > 4) include newer CPAN modules related to (3)
> > 5) generally update CPAN modules where newer releases are available
> > 6) include new features that aren't too scary and don't break
> > backwards compatibility
> > 7) maintain binary compatibility
> > 8) don't break anything.
> >
> > Doing all the above is *very* hard.
> >
> > So we need to decide which of above goals we wish to keep.
>
> I think just having #1, #7 and #8 would be the most useful set of goals
> (plus some minimal subset of #2 only for security issues). Having to
> choose between #1 and #8 will hopefully be rare.
>
> I don't see any point in having maintenance releases without maintaining
> binary compatibility. If you break that, why not label the release as
> the next point.0 release instead?
That's exactly my view too. If it's not binary compatible, what's the point
of putting the effort into this release, rather than one of blead?
Nicholas Clark
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