Re: cvs use and branches/dirs

[Warren Togami <wtogami redhat com>]

seth vidal wrote:
> > Agreement here.  I will make this happen so we can build Extras for FC3 
> > and FC4 in parallel.  The FC4 Extras may need to be rebuilt when we 
> > discover API/ABI changes, but this should settle down before FC4 final 
> > of course.
>
>
> Why don't we always do this. so when fc4 final comes out we do an fc4
> branch and make devel into fc5, etc?

Gafton didn't like that idea when we were first planning this, but now 
it seems that it makes a lot of sense.  I think the concern was that the 
difference between devel and the latest stable distribution Extras would 
be *nothing* for a long while, so it would be a lot of redundant CVS 
commit spam and effort.

Maybe a compromise of a month or two after a stable release for branch 
splitting would be good, or at least when API/ABI begins to diverge and 
it becomes infeasible to use the previous Extras repository with rawhide 
anymore.

We can think about this more as FC4 final approaches.

Warren Togami
wtogami redhat com