Re: [Quilt-dev] tarball reminder

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 11:30 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Monday 02 May 2005 22:09, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:44:08AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, I can't because it's not tagged yet and tags are mandatory to my
> > > script...
> >
> > Hm, good point.  I didn't notice that.  Is there some formal method for
> > deciding when to bump and tag a version?  Or is it just a matter of tagging
> > all the files at CVS HEAD when the version is bumped?
> 
> Version increments are informal. I usually bump the minor version number in 
> configure.ac when I add something non-trivial that should go out to users 
> within reasonable time. We should tag all versions in CVS as well of course, 
> but it's sometimes easy to overlook.

Ok, that's what I thought.  Thanks for answering.

> 
> It's not always trivial for persons other than the one who bumps the version 
> number to tag releases (we might end up with inconsistencies), so please 
> don't.

Yep, I agree.

josh