Re: RFC: time for a new mingwrt/w32api release?

Keith Marshall <[email protected]> Wed, 18 May 2016 15:51:29 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel
Organization MinGW Project
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On 16/05/16 16:14, Keith Marshall wrote:
>> On the other hand, there is a good chance that the number of 
>> affected people, actively tracking the "5.0-dev" branch, is 
>> actually zero.
> 
> That's a metric I hope we might be able to establish, at least as
> it relates to participants on this list.  I'd like to think that it
> *is* zero, since there seems to be no actual head branching from
> that label; it appears to be no more than a place holder,
> currently referring to the same location as 4.0-rc1, (which begs
> the question: why was it designated as 5.0-dev in the first
> place?)

Given that the branch point was named, but no actual branch was ever
created, is there any *real* justification for keeping that original
(virtual) branch ... especially since the 4.0-rc1 tag marks the self
same point?  I'm thinking we might just as well delete this spurious
branch, without bothering to

> 1) Rename the existing "5.0-dev" branch as "5.0-deferred".

since there's no deferred development sitting on that branch anyway.

Thoughts?

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Regards,
Keith.

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