Re: Please hold big check-ins


Subject: Re: Please hold big check-ins
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2000 - 18:09:33 CDT


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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:

>
> First I now have a patch for Columns in Unix. It is set to go. Can that go
> in?

Not right now. I hope to get all the builds finalized tonight (FreeBSD should be sufficently ifdef'ed soon) so that the release can go tommorow. So please don't. There is a possibility that we won't get it done in time, so you may still get Columns in under the wire. But not tonight, please.

>
> Unfortunately Dom we cannot enable non debug builds for lists. The Abiword
> file format will change with the new Fields implementation that Paul Rohr
> is working on. We can't have people happily generating files with lists
> only to have them break at version 0.90 :-(. I have no idea how much work
> it would be to make a hack for backwards compatibility because Paul is
> pretty much out of commission looking after his new babies.
>

           
                                     sam th
                                     sam@uchicago.edu
                                http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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