5.6 beta status

[Bert Wesarg]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:11, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:09 AM, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:34, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I notice a BETA-5-6 branch in Berg Wesarg's repo created about a year
>>>> ago, but they seemed to be no plan to release it. Just wondering
>>>> what's the development/background on this.
>>> Joerg puts it in a nutshell. We need also to bring over fixes from
>>> MAIN to the BETA branch. I can handle this. The rest of the release
>>> procedure would be new new me.
>>
>> Is binary release being the issue here? If not, then it should be
>> limited to just updating the release note and make the annoucement
>> right? That said, I never done a release, so this also new (and old
>> ;-) today to me.
>
> I presume the mercrual repo will help ease the merging work of
> bringing the fixes from main to beta branch, even if it still have to
> ported back to CVS.
I would use the GIT repo for this ;-) the end result needs still to be
applied to the CVS. So who will do it?

I'm also in favour to only release the source, and add binaries as they show up.

Bert

> --
> NEdit Develop mailing list - Develop at nedit.org
> http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/develop
>