On Friday 09 March 2007 11:43, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> As many of you know, significant development effort is going into
> implementing merge tracking as a part of Subversion. This work is going
> well, but there is a concern among some of the developers that it has
> been too long since our last release and that we should not delay the
> Subversion 1.5 release while we wrap up this feature.
>
> There are currently several new features in trunk which are ready to go
> into the next Subversion release. These include:
> * Cyrus SASL support (SoC project '06)
[...]
> * Partial sparse directories support (not in trunk yet, but
> anticipated to be merged soon.)
[...]
> Our question to you is whether or not you, as users of Subversion, would
> like Subversion 1.5 now with the above features, or 1.5 in 6 months with
> features plus merge tracking? Releasing 1.5 now will push 1.6 back
> slightly due to the overhead associated with 1.5. If we do release 1.5
> now, we hope to release 1.6, with merge tracking, by 4Q 2007.
1.5 would be *well* worth it just for SASL and sparse directory support
IMHO. Merge tracking will be an excellent improvment, but I'm much less
interested in getting that quickly. =)
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Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net>
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