RE: Why are we having the branch after all? (was Re: cvs commit: ant/docs/manual/CoreTypes filterchain.html)

[Ja...@rzf.fin-nrw.de]

What is the status about closing the 1.6-branch?

Jan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de [mailto:Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de]
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:21 AM
> To: dev@ant.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Why are we having the branch after all? (was Re: cvs
> commit: ant/docs/manual/CoreTypes filterchain.html)
> 
> 
> I cannot see any really major changes from 1.6 to HEAD so 
> would prefer 1.6.2
> as
> name. 
> And if we can get rid of the local 16_BRANCH I would be happy 
> - holding
> these two
> trees partially in sync is not easy :-)
> 
> Jan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bodewig@apache.org]
> > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:17 AM
> > To: dev@ant.apache.org
> > Subject: Why are we having the branch after all? (was Re: 
> cvs commit:
> > ant/docs/manual/CoreTypes filterchain.html)
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Jan Materne <Ja...@rzf.fin-nrw.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Or should the 15390 be applied to 1.6 as well?
> > 
> > Given the amount of new features we are adding to the 1.6 
> branch, this
> > has IMHO far outgrown a maintenance branch.  The difference between
> > the 1.6 branch and CVS HEAD is very small and if soemthing 
> ends up on
> > the branch or not is purely arbitrary - I cannot see a theme here.
> > 
> > Maybe we should rather release a 1.7 from CVS HEAD instead of 1.6.2?
> > Or release from CVS HEAD and call it 1.6.2?
> > 
> > Stefan
> > 
> > 
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