Re: RFC: New release for DTC?

[Simon Glass <sjg-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:50:07 -0500, Mike Frysinger <vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Thursday 23 August 2012 21:36:25 David Gibson wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 08:15:39PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>> > > Following advice from Jon Loeliger, I would suggest that a new release
>> > > of DTC be tagged and packaged.
>> > >
>> > > It is important for some projects to rely on a released version, rather
>> > > than use a random cset from the repository. Comes to mind, the automated
>> > > build-systems, such as buildroot.
>> > >
>> > > Of course, I can help, if need be! ;-)
>> > >
>> > > Are there any others who think that a release would make sense?
>> >
>> > This has been a bit of a perrenial problem.  dtc development has been
>> > sufficiently gradual that there haven't been many obvious points for
>> > making new releases.  dtc developers (i.e. Jon and my, mostly) don't
>> > feel much pain from the lack of releases, since the git snapshots
>> > generally work well (thanks to limited scope and a good testsuite).
>> >
>> > I wonder if we should move to a model of just making a release every 3
>> > or 6 months from whatever happens to be in the tree at the time
>> > (barring obvious known breakage, of course).
>>
>> yes please.  even just a version that uses datestamps would be fine.
>> -mike
>
> Fine by me.

So is this happening? I agree a regular release would be useful, and I
think it has been about 18 months since the last release.

Regards,
Simon

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