Re: pgsql/src/interfaces/odbc/windev README.txt bi ...

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql/src/interfaces/odbc/windev README.txt bi ...
Date: 2002-01-11 05:18:50
Message-ID: 200201110518.g0B5Ios16715@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > The only but very significant reason I can see about psqlodbc
> > CVS is that people can see (nearly) up to date source at the
> > official place. People can compile it by themselves and try it.
>
> A fair point. Other projects than this would likely already have
> a CVS branch going for the-next-version. Historically we've not
> done that, so as to avoid having to double-patch bug fixes into
> two separate branches. But this release cycle is going so darn
> slow that I'm half inclined to agree that making a 7.3 branch now
> would be better.
>
> [ Or, we could get off our collective rears and get 7.2 out the
> door. Hiroshi is not at fault, but some of us on this side of
> the Pacific are ... ]

The only problem with a 7.3 branch now is double-patching, but I am
willing to do it for my stuff and the stuff I apply. Our post-final .0
release has very few patches these days so branching is not as big a
deal, _and_ some of us are fulltime so can do the double-patching.

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