1.6 release?

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Nov 6, 2007, at 7:38 AM, Weissmann Markus wrote:

> On 05.11.2007, at 22:16, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>
>> 	Hey everyone!
>>
>> 	It's very pleasing to see the amount of work that has gone into  
>> base since our last release, but the negative side of that is that  
>> our current code delta between trunk and the last release branch  
>> is huge. Therefore I propose we make a 1.6 release with a new  
>> release branch from scratch, cut off from trunk ToT.
>>
>> 	For that to happen, it would be nice to have some input on the  
>> current state of trunk:
>>
>> -) does any developer in particular plan to include new features/ 
>> improvements in the near future? If so, do these entail any  
>> obvious instability we should account for?
>>   *) Markus, anything else we should look forward to in your  
>> recent slew of build stage related improvements?
>>
>
> Nothing too spectacular: The most significant additions in  
> configure/build are Anders' parallel build jobs and a bunch of  
> configure-options for more comfortable access to often-used  
> environment variables.


	ACK! Anymore you can foresee you'll be adding soon? It'd be great to  
package them all in a single release, so that maintainers can start  
using them in their Portfiles ASAP.


> This all has been done very conservative: The configure-options  
> code is very straight and the parallel build jobs are off by  
> default. We could switch the default to auto in a later release so  
> the number of parallel build threads is oriented at the number of  
> cores of the build machine, but not for 1.6.



	Maybe 2.0, once we have automated runs going and can conduct massive  
tests on big groups of ports ;-)

>
>
> -Markus
>


	Regards,...


-jmpp