Re: pgsql/src/interfaces/odbc/windev README.txt bi ... - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pgsql/src/interfaces/odbc/windev README.txt bi ...
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Msg-id 200201110518.g0B5Ios16715@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: pgsql/src/interfaces/odbc/windev README.txt bi ...  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.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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