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Month: March 2011

Re: [trinity-devel] Bugs, bugs, bugs

From: Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 09:07:36 -0800 (PST)
Then I vote that the next release be 3.6 and not 3.5.13. Too huge a transition for a point release.

Darrell

> As I mentioned on the list today, we have a major problem
> already.  Trinity 3.5.12 with Automake just plain
> *will* *not* *build* on modern systems, so we are losing a
> lot of potential help for the bugs every day that CMake is
> unfinished.  Very few people will purposefully
> downgrade (and break) their entire build system just to fix
> a Trinity bug or two.  Also we cannot release something
> that is known not to build on 90% of current Linux
> distributions.  The problem was far more pervasive than
> I originally thought, so I had no choice but to block on
> CMake and bump its priority to critical.
> 
> It's unpleasant I know, but I don't see any other way to do
> this.
> 
> Tim