In an effort to maintain some mental stimulation while we go through our post-migration shake-down (i.e. Bugzilla and feature request wrangling), I’ve decided to learn Python in the off-hours. I also figured while I was at it, I might as well get some useful code out of it.
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Output goings on
We finally broke down and created a Freshmeat project — well, Brad did. I’ve added the 1.0.1 release (also available here), and it’s waiting approval by the fine folks over at FM.
As I mentioned before in passing, we’re trying to be better about these sorts of things. We’ll continue to announce releases here and do our best to keep the FM page up to date as well. You can expect new release bundles fairly often, if irregularly, and we’re committed to not breaking compatibility inside any major release series — so 1.0.2 (whenever that happens) will simply replace 1.0.1 directly, with no specialized upgrade script required.
Now that we’re numbering releases we’ll also try to pull together some “official” documentation on what the version numbers mean, but for now it’s safe to think of it like the Linux kernel: 0 and even numbered minor version numbers (x.[02468].x) are stable, and odds are development/experimental/unstable.
That’s all for now … but stay tuned!
Evergreen 1.0
Just a few days ago, something very significant happened quietly in PINES/Evergreen land: we tagged Evergreen 1.0.
Side note: I’ve learned there are few things more difficult than to get obsessive/perfectionist software developers to sign off and stamp their approval on a piece of software that’s been their lives for the past couple of years. Just one more tweak here! Oh, let me just get that one other thing…
As always, the software is available from our CVS repository.