Re: [damien.doligez@inria.fr: [Caml-list] Objective Caml release 3.08.4]
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 01:14:42PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> 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".
Well, paste experience show that this happens rather quickly, in the first
month or so.
But we will see.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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