need for release?

[Pavel]

Considering the number of fixes maybe a 1.3.2.1 is more appropriate than  
1.3.3?
/pavel

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:15:42 +0100, Boriss Mejias  
<boris.mejias at uclouvain.be> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>



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