need for release?

[Boriss Mejias]

Dear Hackers,

We had a discussion here at UCL about future releases of Mozart, and we would
like to have your opinion in order to take some decisions.

First, there are two main projects that will produces releases 1.4.0 and
1.5.0. These are MozDSS and GeOz. The numbers will depend on which one
releases first.

But, since we haven't released since July 2006 (version 1.3.2), we wonder if
it is worthy to release 1.3.3 before MozDSS and-or GeOz. The point is that no
major bug fixes has been added to the 1-3-0-fixes branch, but here there are
some reasons in favour of doing the release:

- There is now support for windoze Vista. This is a very small fix that is
already included in a new 1.3.2 installer for windowze, but it would be good
to uniform the packages.
- The small fix in the oz script that calls the emulator, and that concerns
spaces in files names, seems to have fixed an annoying bug for some time.
- The was an issue concerning the default behaviour of the OPI, where
different threads where launched with every "declare" statement. This fix
might be interesting mainly for students.
- A 1.3.3 release would be a would opportunity to close the 1-3-0-fixes branch
- Releasing is good to show that the community is still working on Mozart/Oz
- Having a deadline for a release may force us to try to fix some extra-small bugs

The strongest argument against the release would be that the amount of fixes
is very small, and it might be enough to not release, but I'm not sure of
that. This is why I would like to discuss this in order to take a decision.

Best,
Boriss