The 3.9 update stream

[stéphane ducasse]

On 22 mars 05, at 4:28, Doug Way wrote:

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> On Monday, March 21, 2005, at 02:51 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:
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>>> I'd like to stick to my plan of using the unstable stream, which I 
>>> guess I need to formalize and post on the 3.9 wiki page.  But it's 
>>> not too complicated, we'll just use the unstable stream, and then 
>>> periodically move updates to the regular stream (which is easy, and 
>>> I can do at first).
>>
>> yes
>>
>> Now my question is that how do we restart, take a 3.8 image and how 
>> do we mark it as 3.9 alpha?
>> Because we need to do that to replay the changes or should we rename 
>> the changes first?
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> Er, well, I don't think you would want to take a current 3.8gamma 
> image and mark it as 3.9alpha, they have forked too far apart at this 
> point I'd say.

Why? I do not really understand. Do you mean that we do not want to 
have all the fixes that are in 3.8 into 3.9?

> (And I'm not sure why you would need to do that.)  The main difference 
> is that 3.9alpha contains the Diego look changes, although I suppose 
> there are probably not too many other changes.
>
> If you want a fresh 3.9alpha image, I would just grab it from the ftp 
> site.  Or, get an older 3.8beta image and update.
>
> (I suppose someone could create a set of updates which would update a 
> current/final 3.8 to be equivalent to a current 3.9alpha, but I'm not 
> sure it's worth it.)
>
> Anyway, what were you trying to do? :-)

Just get a 3.9alpha in which I can work.


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> - Doug
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