[Lazarus] Test the Lazarus fixes_0_9_30 branch

[Sven Barth]

Am 16.02.2011 15:46, schrieb John Stoneham:
> Can you clear this up for me?
>
> Here's the way I understand it.
> - Even numbers are reserved for stable releases: 0.9.28.2 is the current
> stable release.
> - Odd numbers are used for the development branch: 0.9.31 is the current
> svn development branch. (Why isn't it 0.9.29 then?)

It was 0.9.29, but after the branch of the fixes_0.9.30 branch the new 
development version got the version 0.9.31.

> - Fixes branch is for locking features and fixing bugs before a stable
> release, basically the RC branch. So fixes_0.9.30 is... wait, on the
> snapshots page it says fixes_0.9.29. What happened to fixes_0.9.30?
>

The snapshots are still compiled as 0.9.29, but they are from the 
fixes_0.9.30 branch (version of the branch and version of the 
application must not be the same).

> So 0.9.31 in svn is what will eventually become the 0.9.32 stable
> release, right? That means it contains things that are being developed
> beyond (and will not be in) 0.9.30. And fixes_0.9.29 is what will be
> 0.9.30 stable, correct? But at some point a few weeks ago (I assume
> before the fixes branch was created) the svn branch was 0.9.30, wasn't
> it? And didn't this thread start out calling the fixes branch fixes_0.9.30?
>

The SVN structure is this:

|-\
| |_ fixes_0.9.28
|
|-\
| |_ fixes_0.9.30
|
trunk (aka 0.9.31)

The snapshot structure is this:
Lazarus 0.9.29 (aka 0.9.30, currently prepared for release)
Lazarus 0.9.31 (the current development version)

> I don't know, I'm still confused. I guess the way I would do it, so that
> it made sense to me, is to always have what will be the next stable
> release as trunk. So trunk would now be numbered 0.9.29. And have a
> branch numbered 0.9.31 for the development version containing things
> that are being worked on for a still future release. So when 0.9.30 is
> released, the branch numbered 0.9.31 would then become trunk. When it
> gets close to the time to release 0.9.32, branch off a development
> 0.9.33. And so on.
>

trunk is always the main development version. All experimental features 
go in there. Then from time to time a release is branched from that 
trunk and stabilized.

Regards,
Sven