6 days, 76 downloads, 1 issue

[David Relson]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:28:24 +0100
Matthias Andree wrote:

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> > I hadn't been aware of db4.4's release until I saw your CVS commits
> > yesterday.  Evidently it new.  Do we even want to mention it in 1.0.0
> > documentation?  Given our lack of experience with it, I'm inclined to
> > say the answer is "No."
> 
> Given we'll be stuck with 1.0.X for a loooong time, and estimating we'll
> mostly see usability improvements going into 1.1.X because the core
> works, I'm inclined to vote Yes, that is why I made those changes in the
> first place. I checked through the "upgrading applications to the 4.4
> release" documents of BerkeleyDB, and there are zero changes we need to
> make.
> 
> Berkeley DB 4.4 has many usability improvments, however we cannot use
> them without dropping support for 4.3 and older at the same time, and
> I'm not ready to do that, or fork a new datastore_db44.c, or add more of
> the ugly #ifdef or #if DB_AT_LEAST() graffiti.
> 
> > Martin,
> >
> > I don't have db4.4 installed either.  It certainly isn't required for
> > 1.0.0.  It would be great if you upgraded to 0.96.6 and gave it a
> > test.  I don't anticipate any problems, but one never knows.  Surprises
> > _do_ happen.
> 
> Indeed. Only recently, we figured that the fetchmail 6.3.0 release
> candidates (reported against -rc8, -rc9 the current one, -rc10 coming up
> early week with the fix) wouldn't let itself be installed on systems
> without Python.
> 
> I seriously do expect we'll be seeing a 1.0.1 release 10 days after
> 1.0.0 proper, and I do expect the same for fetchmail only it will be
> named 6.3.1 rather than 1.0.1. :)
> 
> Those new releases are going to see many more downloads than anything
> that looks as though it might moved in the four weeks before.
> 
> Oh, and the compelling reason not to let 1.0.0 out the door is we still
> haven't completed our security announcements for 0.96.2. Perhaps we
> should bend the rules a bit and declare 0.96.6 stable, mention in the
> promotion announcement that it supports Berkeley DB 4.4 (and the
> previous Berkeley DB versions back to 3.X whatever), and wait 10 more
> days. Perhaps I can then find the time to look into the 0.96.2 security
> problem, as the fetchmail front is really getting calm now.
> 
> -- 
> Matthias Andree

OK.  Let's promote 0.96.6 to stable and wait 10 days to see what happens.

If bug fixes are needed, the next release will be 0.96.7.  If no bug
fixes are needed, the next release is 1.0.0.  In either case, the db4.4
info will be included in the next release.