[asdf-devel] ASDF 3? WAS Re: if-component-dep-fails

[Faré]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
> On 12/14/12 Dec 14 -3:13 PM, Faré wrote:
>
>>> Personally, I have pretty much lost track of when features I need were
>>> added to ASDF.
>>>
>> If you care to specify the proper version of asdf to depend on,
>> the release-to-release debian/changelog and the commit-to-commit git
>> log are here to help.
>
> Ah.  Thanks.  I don't use the debian packaged version, so it didn't
> occur to me to look in debian/
>
> Any chance of promoting the changelog to the root directory?
>
No, that's where debian wants it, I don't want to do double work.

> I don't suppose symlinking works happily, especially for folks on
> Windows....
>
Nope. I could include a note in the README...

> Having a changelog probably makes it less critical to distinguish api
> changes from patch releases.  I have a minor feeling that it's tidier to
> do so, but that's probably just being obsessive.
>
It's important to distinguish releases. Things break during development,
some commits are checkpoints of work in progress, and more testing
happens before (or sadly, after) release.

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