[Xastir-Dev] 1.1.4 Release?

Jerry Chamberlin jerryc at netlab.org
Tue Dec 24 13:59:43 EST 2002


Looks good here, Finally no garbage map names, all the existing issues are the
dumb way I put maps in.

Merry Christmas etc....


Thanks for the fun toy
Used it to track my last drive to Fargo from Kansas City was cute.



On 24 Dec 2002, Chuck Byam wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 14:28, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Jack Twilley wrote:
> > 
> > > What version number are you proposing?  1.1.4?  1.2?
> > 
> > Whatever Chuck likes, Chuck gets (Chuck Byam).
> > 
> > 
> > > What exactly
> > > constitutes a stable release versus a development release?  The Linux
> > > scheme is very popular with open source software lately.
> > 
> > Not sure.  I don't think we've discussed this particular topic.
> > Doesn't matter much to me as I'm always running latest CVS, but I
> > suppose some users might think that even/odd stuff might indicate
> > the stable/less stable releases.  In our case so far they don't.
> > "stable" releases tend to be much less stable than the current
> > development releases due to bug fixes.
> > 
> > 
> I would have to agree about releasing a "stable" version, as many
> distro's will only include this in a release.  If the latest mapping
> functions are working as advertised, and they seem to be from my end, I
> think it's a good idea.
> 
> In keeping with the versioning (is that a word? :) ) scheme that we've
> been using in the past; major.minor.revision, I think there has been
> sufficient functionality to at the very least bump the minor version
> number.
> 
> Having said that, let's clean up the code that we have (map choosing,
> etc.,) and branch this.  If there are any users that would consider
> taking on building binaries (rpm/deb), this would be an excellent time
> to do this as well.
> 
> I hope that all of you have a great holiday season and it has been a
> pleasure working with all of you over the past year.  Without a doubt, I
> think that Xastir is becoming the benchmark of APRS clients (for any
> OS).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Chuck Byam <cbyam at virginia.edu>
> 
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