Re: [damien.doligez@inria.fr: [Caml-list] Objective Caml release 3.08.4]
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:02:34PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:53:22AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Hi all, i suppose you all did see this one.
> >
> > Question, do we want to go ahead and package this, including the full rebuild,
> > or wait for ocaml 3.09 ? Do anyone have any information of the likeliness of a
> > 3.09 release nextly ? I mean we where acustomed to a yearly new ocaml release
> > each summer, but maybe with the point releases this is no more of actuality.
>
> Ok, i had a quick chat with the release team on these issues, and the
> consensus seems to be :
>
> There is currently glic, xorg and KDE transition goin on, so an upload of
> 3.08.4 or early 3.09 will only be hold up by these transitions.
>
> So, we wait to approximately end of september, and check out the above
> transitions again, if 3.09 (or the followup 3.09.1) has been release by
> then. Depending on the status of the transition we will then move for an
> upload or not. The uplod will probably mean some stuff may be removed from
> testing temporarily, if it is blocked by some of the bigger transition.
>
> In the meantime, we upload to experimental 3.09 as soon as it is released,
> both to help upstream testing and to satisfy our users.
I agree, of course.
Unfortunately, I did not ask Xavier when he expects
the first bug-fix release of ocaml 3.09 to be rolled out, but I
understood that he meant "wait until we have some idea about whether
3.09 has no major new bugs, or until we have fixed the first bugs".
-Ralf.
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