Re: Time for a 4.0.1 bug fix release?

[rik]

On 10/19/2015 09:09 AM, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 19 October 2015 at 16:19, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 10/19/15
>>
>> All,
>>
>> Version 4.0.0 was released in May, and it is now nearly November, i.e., 6
>> months later.
>>
>> Using hg log -b stable -r release-4-0-0:: > stable.log
>>
>> There are just 74 changesets, but quite a few important fixes for
>> segfaults, mis-calculated results, and regressions, as well as just
>> documentation.  It would be nice to have some sort of fix for the crashes
>> that lots of people seem to be having with OpenGL graphics, but I don't
>> think we have an answer there so it isn't worth delaying.
>>
>> My vote is for a 4.0.1 bug fix release in November.
> What should be done about the packages that go with the MXE releases?
> Was there any consensus about what versions to use for that?  Should we:
>
> 1) use the exact same versions released with 4.0.0 (unfair, why don't the
> packages get a chance for fix their issues)
>
> 2) the package last patch release for the version released with 4.0.0 (but
> most OF packages don't follow core in only accepting regression fixes in
> those patch releases)
>
> 3) the last release of each package (not great if we want to extend the
> backwards compatible promise to the packages in the MXE distribution)
>
> Carnë
I would use either option 1 (unfair, but people who want the latest package
can always go get it themselves from Octave-Forge.  We are just trying to
be nice by including a selection of the most common packages in the same
installer as core Octave) or option 2 (Octave-Forge has its own rules and
we don't extend the core guarantee about compatibility on to the packages).

--Rik