[GRASS5] Glynn: Please branch. Rest: Hold Committs.

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 06:36:31PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> > If the changes planned by the development are more substaintial, yes.
> > Minor fixes and enhancements can go in HEAD for 5.0.x.
> 
> If the head is the 5.0.x series, the definition of "minor" needs to
> include complete backward compatibility with 5.0.0. IMHO, it's
> essential that we can produce bug-fix releases which don't break
> *anything*.
> 
> In that sense, an "enhancement" is only an enhancement if *nobody*
> will want the un-enhanced behaviour. We don't want a site being unable
> to install a bug-fix release because it will break their scripts,
> course notes etc.

We might introduce some in-compatibilities, 
but we should avoid this if we can.
(The Linux kernel subseries also sometimes brought strange changes.)
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