Re: [Quilt-dev] go to version 0.47?

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 14:51 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 02:23:27 Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 18:51 -0500, Dean Roehrich wrote:
> > > The latest version of quilt is 0.46, issued in ...October 2006?  How many
> > > of us are actually using that?  I'd bet most of us are using something
> > > from late 2007 or even from this summer.  There are command changes
> > > (rename<>revert), various bug fixes,...and I'm in a situation where it
> > > would be helpful if I can say that quilt was not abandoned 2 years ago :)
> 
> The cvs log will show you that.
> 
> > I'm for it.
> 
> Creating release tarballs just doesn't add value: the snapshots are not 
> better 
> than taking the latest cvs version. 

Except they are when you are packaging quilt for a distro.  Distros like
to know what upstream source tarball was used in the package, and
pointing them to a hand-rolled CVS snapshot tarball is a bit harder than
pointing them to an official release.

At any rate, thanks!

josh