[geos-devel] branch vs trunk

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Thu Jun 18 14:42:14 PDT 2015


Hi Greg, thanks, yes I agree, I will use the 3.4 branch until such 
external pressure (more pressure than little 'ol me) comes from beyond. 
  -jeff



On 2015-06-18 6:39 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> writes:
>
>> On second thought, I decided to go with the stable branch (/3.4).
>>
>> Sorry for the noise.
>
> It was actually a really good question.   My opinion (I maintain the
> pkgsrc entry) is that you should only package releases, which sounds
> like your standard practice too.  But 3.5-to-be is starting to get used
> as an almost-dependency by postgis, and I expect pressure from that to
> lead to a 3.5 release within the next half year.   (I'm not involved;
> that's just a guess as a packager/lurker.)
>



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