Re: [Chicken-hackers] What to do with CHICKEN 4.13/4.12.1 release/snapshot?

[Christian Kellermann]

* John Cowan <address@hidden> [171028 22:15]:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Also, what happens to the CHICKEN 4 line after 5.0 is out?
> >
> 
> 1) Pick a EOL date for Chicken 4.
> 
> 2) Stop accepting patches except security patches.
> 
> 3) Accept security patches until the EOL date.
> 
> 4) Profit!!!

I would do all of the above with a 4.13 release. There may be
people relying on CHICKEN 4 for their code base so we should give
them a cleaned up ship they can sink with :)

Seriously though, mitigation to CHICKEN 5 will take some time and
there have been bugfixes in master that should make it into a stable
version.


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