From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Glass Subject: Re: RFC: New release for DTC? Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:40:42 -0800 Message-ID: References: <201208232015.39613.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <20120824013625.GA8067@truffula.fritz.box> <201211171250.08597.vapier@gentoo.org> <20121118000013.6964A3E08F7@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20121118000013.6964A3E08F7@localhost> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Sender: "devicetree-discuss" To: Grant Likely Cc: devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Grant Likely wrote: > On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:50:07 -0500, Mike Frysinger 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 > > g. > > _______________________________________________ > devicetree-discuss mailing list > devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org > https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss