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From: yackd@alaska.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman)
Subject: Re: release of MiscKit 1.0 miscellanea
To: Don_Yacktman@byu.edu, kane@sonata.cc.purdue.edu
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Status: RO
Sorry I've been slow to get anything out. I have been really
swamped at this end. Really bad. Basically, the person I am
doing some consulting stuff for just hit his deadline for a
presentation and so I've spent the week busting my rear to
squeeze in as many extra features as I can. I think I did
OK at that. :-) However, that means that the MiscKit had
to take a breather. Hopefully I can get the rest of this
wrapped up. I really had a bunch of things I wanted to fix
for 1.0, and therefore think a release delayed until a little
after the clamor of 3.2 might be the easiest. (But you are
right in that it would be great to release _before_ then. I
just doubt that I can prepare something I'd be pleased with
in time to do that.) Well, as usual, I'll have to play it
by ear.
As to _where_ I will release it, the orst and sonata sites would
be wonderful. I had planned on orst at least, and if you can
clear space on sonata for it, even better. (When I do the
release I will place it on byu and orst, and let you copy it to
sonata yourself, so you can be sure that noone else tries to
slip a file in there between when you would clear it and I would
get the message...) I have no problem with it turning up on
every archive in the world...and I'd certainly want it on an
archive (at least one) that archie knows about.
I'll keep using ftp.byu.edu for minor revisions and working
copies, but all major releases and any minor release with
significant changes or bug fixes will definitely go to the
archives. You know, one thing we never decided is how to choose
whether to bump up a major or minor revision number...hmmm...
it might be good to state some sort of policy in the charter, don't you think?
What might you suggest? If I do a major number each time I
add objects/resources, it'll go up too quickly, but if I
don't then how do I distinguish between bug fix releases and
new functionality? Maybe something like x.y.z for the number
where z is only bug fixes, y adds functionality (new resources)
and x is >10 new resources or something like that. Opinions?
Well, I've got work to do...
Later,
-don