Re: gEDA: pcb-20060422 snapshot

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dan,

[snip]
>easy, there have been no "releases".  I've just periodically been making 
>snapshot releases which are releases in the sense that I verify that 
>'make distcheck' works for me which usually catches glaring errors in 
>the build system and makes sure that the snapshot tarball will have all 
>the files needed to build.  Also I've been branching the sources and 
>setting the version number to the snapshot date.  Other than that I have 
>not been doing anything extra.
>
>Some day we might distinguish between true releases and snapshots but so 
>far we haven't.

	I haven't done a "release" of gEDA/gaf since, oh, 1998.  I sorta
like the whole dated snapshot approach, since the version number presents
some sort of a tie to reality (since it's a date, you know how old the
software is).  I haven't found any major problems/objections with this
approach.

								-Ales