FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:28:12 -0300
Luis Lavena <luislavena AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Again, my comment was not aimed to get FreeTDS change to what you
> think is my just learned or favorite VCS

I didn't mean to insinuate anything, Luis.  I did get the impression you were 
suggesting we use git.  I'm sorry for any misunderstanding.  

> There has been no official release of FreeTDS in the past 2 years:
...
> I mean, i can go and download stable now, come back 2 months from now
> and "stable" will not be the same

Yes.  Message received.  Stay tuned.  

> So, if I were a developer working on a package manager attempting to
> create a recipe (which, ehem, I am) I would doubt in the future that
> my recipe will work and will need to keep a closer (real close) look
> to FreeTDS project evolution.

I've never been in that position; I've had to learn about it from people like 
yourself explaining it to me.  Tonight I learned two things:

1.  Releases help downstream projects track their dependencies.  

2.  Snapshots would be more useful as psuedo-releases if they were versioned 
somehow.  

For example, freetds-current.tgz could be a symbolic link to 
freetds-0.83.dev.20110125.tar.gz (currently).  We could archive snapshots at 
predictable intervals until the next release, perhaps on the first of each 
month.  That would give you a more predictable base on which to build.  

Would a system like that make your life easier?  

Regards, 

--jkl