Re: How to get latest stable(ish) branch?

[Rob Browning]

Brett Viren <address@hidden> writes:

> I want to try version "1.6" or whatever pre-1.6 is in CVS.  I guessed
> by looking at the online CVS at savannah that to do this I should
> specify the tag "branch_release-1-6", right?

Right.  For an existing tree,

  cvs -qz3 update -Pd -r branch_release-1-6

should work, as I recall.

> If this is correct, maybe the answer to this can be added to the
> bottom of http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/anon-cvs.html

Good idea.  That, along with some of the info from the more recent
docs should probably be integrated there.  I'll plan to add a todo
item for that when I'm working on guile next.

> PS: alternatively, I'd love to have a link to the officially released
> 1.6 tarball...

See the news for 2002-03-07 at
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/news.html.

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