[crossfire] Reminder: Release 1.11 forthcoming (On GTK V2 Client )

[Kevin R. Bulgrien]

> > I don't care if we have to copy it down to branch to keep versions of
> > the client equivalent with the server.  Please consider this
> > thoughtfully.
>
>   By its very nature, a 1.11 release would come from the stable branch, and
> not from the trunk.

The version of a client may not need to track the server, though as it is a
tradition, I'll not push against that.

>   There are several possible things that could be done:
> 1) Backport libglade changes to 1.11 release.  If that is done, it almost
> makes more sense to just make a copy of what is currently the trunk client
> and call that the stable and 1.11 release (probably easier, and I'm not
> sure of any unique changes in the trunk right now).  Note that going
> forward, that may not be true - point of trunk client is to be able to make
> changes, etc, without having to worry about backwards compatibility - it
> just has to be compatible with the trunk server.

No backporting.  I already looked at it.  The two codebases are too far
apart.  People have been featuring trunk and not branch, so the merge
down would be a terrible amount of effort to pare out things that are
not incompatible with branch nor unstable.  Trunk is stable at the moment,
and I know of no reason the trunk client shouldn't be treated as "the client"
for the branch.  If it must be 1.11, then copying it down is the way to
get back to a common base.  Besides, without more distribution, there
will not be as much feedback on how to improve it, so it will mostly
stay a toy for a few - which is not a good thing in my opinion.

> 2) Make the 1.11 client release from the branch client, and also do a
> snapshot release of the trunk client.  That's just extra work.
>
> 3) Just do a 1.11 client release - folks wanting to use the trunk could
> still get it from SVN.

Branch GTK V2 is not a people's client and picks no bones about saying
so in the README.  I think that not releasing the improvements would be
a travesty.  I did the work to put GTK V2 into people's hands who would
not previously consider it - myself included. I've decided to jump over
and make it what it should be rather than just complain about it.

>   As an aside, has the rpmspec been updated for the libglade changes?  Do
> we care about RPM's?

No, I don't recall seeing an rpmspec in the client, but now that you ask,
I see it.  I'll look into updating it.

Kevin