Re: release policy

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > Oops.  I did not know that, I never used 1.4 in practice.  :-/
> > I retract that then partly, I did not know 1.5 had regressions over 1.4.
> > I never meant to "sell" regression fixes as new features.
>
> Bob, that's really not fair!  The reason 1.4 didn't do extra C++ and
> f77 tests was because it only supported C!!!  The multi-language-branch
> merge was the driver for bumping the release number to 1.5 -- a mere
> 2.5 years ago.

Regardless, for existing C language users (the only language that 1.4 
claimed to support), the new behavior was clearly a "regression" in 
1.5.

It did not take Albert long to submit a patch to fix the problem but 
since 2.0 was right around the corner, fixing the problem was 
postponed to 2.0.

Bob
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