Re: [lwip-devel] 1.5.x and API?

[Kieran Mansley]

On 12 Jun 2011, at 14:29, Leon Woestenberg wrote:

> You don't have to choose then, both developments can continue.

Yes, it's an approach I'm very familiar with.  It's not really a matter of 
choosing between the two, but deciding to only create the stable development 
branch if we ever have the need.  i.e. if we discovered significant bugs that 
needed fixing after a stable release was made then those bugs would need to be 
back ported and the branch created.  So far two factors have prevented this: 
(i) we haven't yet had that situation where the stable release had a critical 
bug that required fixing; and (ii) we don't have the manpower to maintain two 
releases.  I've therefore decided to only make branches as necessary.

The side effect of this is that some changes to lwIP that would break the API 
have been delayed while we have made a non-API-changing release (such as 1.3.1 
and 1.3.2) but with so few developers I don't think this has caused problems.

If people are experiencing problems with this release, and would prefer to have 
bug fixes back-ported, the please let me know.  I'd be happy to do it that way, 
but I think the approach we have now is more pragmatic  given the resources 
available.

Kieran