branching wv et al.

From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 03:10:57 EDT

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    On 28 May 2002, Mark Gilbert wrote:
    > On another topic, when I use the stable tag I dont get wv, psiconv, or
    > unixfonts. The need to tag these may not be obvious, but occasional
    > changes may be made and the principal of branching should be upheld. Is
    > it just me again?

    It's not just you, but I think we just don't want to maintain two of
    these.

    In fact, IMO, psiconv is effectively stable, since the functionality in
    HEAD is only in the psion importer and that looks for system-library
    libpsiconv not peer psiconv.

    unixfonts hardly ever changes, and if it does it ought to change
    identically in HEAD & STABLE - but I wouldn't be surprised if one of the
    goals of currently font/pango development is to eliminate the need for
    unixfonts entirely, so arguably unixfonts is effectively stable as well.

    wv is questionable. Personally I would be happier with it branched,
    because in its current state we know it works for stable abi, and if we
    branched it I'd feel happier when making sweeping changes to HEAD wv...

    Ciao, Frank

    Francis James Franklin
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