[avr-libc-dev] Re: avr-libc 1.6.8 [was: duplicating avr-libc fromwinavr]

[David Brown]

Weddington, Eric wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- From: 
> > address@hidden 
> > [mailto:address@hidden org]
> > On Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:04 AM
> >  To: address@hidden Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] avr-libc
> > 1.6.8 [was: duplicating avr-libc fromwinavr]
> >
> >
> > Therefore, I'd propose our next release will be 1.7.1 (as 1.7.0 has
> >  been in use for the development branch for quite some time now).
> >
> > If anyone has serious objections against this, please speak up now.
>
> Sounds good. Although why not use 1.7.0? AFAIK, no one has ever done
> a public release using HEAD as 1.7.0. As maintainers, we ultimately
> decide what the release versions will be. I'm concerned that users
> will ask us what happened to 1.7.0 if we jump to 1.7.1.

Don't worry about users asking questions here.  There are two sorts of 
users of avr-libc - those that understand fine that version numbering 
often has "missing" releases, and those that simply use whatever comes 
with a particular release of WinAVR.  So pick whatever makes it easier 
for you guys.

Incidentally, is there a reason why avr-libc is hosted with CVS rather 
than Subversion?  One thing that is particularly easy with SVN is 
tagging releases and branches, so that the original problem in this 
thread would be easier to avoid.

mvh.,

David