Re: branch-2-0

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > Why were we in a hurry to create branch-2-0 while libtool is known to 
> > still suffer from many simple syntax issues?
>
> Arch makes merging astoundingly easy.  If you don't want to commit twice, 
> just put your fixes on branch-2-0, and I'll star-merge them back
> into HEAD from time to time.  If you have time and inclination, I highly
> recommend publishing an arch archive of your own... it would help us test and 
> integrate one-another's changes and save the fuss of applying
> patches from email attachments.

Alas, I have very little available time.  That is one of the reasons 
why I am such a terrible libtool maintainer. :-(

> I wanted to help (myself mainly) avoid the temptation to commit `cleanups' to 
> the branch that 2.0 will be released from.  Having a branch for 2.0 now means 
> I can commit cleanups to HEAD (rather than waiting and then forgetting them) 
> and put only fixes on the release branch.

Hmmm ... the true reason is revealed! :-)

If it is so easy for you to do, then please merge across the updates I 
committed today.

Provided that libtool starts working for MinGW and Solaris (MinGW is 
much improved now), I would like to start using development libtool 
for the development version of GraphicsMagick in order to gain more 
real-world experience with it and flush out any remaining bugs which 
keep me from using it for production use.

Bob
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