0.87.2 tomorrow

Perhaps bugs tend to sneak in because there is little or no

    >> warning before releases.

How much warning is desirable? I think for major point releases more
is good, but for bug fix releases perhaps it is less important?

    > Sorry, I didnt mean that to sound so blunt or
    > argumentative. I have been spending the last two days
    > recovering a trashed system, the one on which I do all my
    > MPL development. I havent seen any bug reports related to
    > my recent changes, but I had wanted to get the new API
    > (draw_markers) together for the next release. That can
    > wait.

I think this would best go into a major release in any case, but I
glad to hear you are revisiting it.

JDH

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On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:28 pm, Darren Dale wrote:

In this case, since it was announced that this release would hopefully stand
for some time, I think it would be good to have a few days warning.

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On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:56 pm, John Hunter wrote:

    > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:28 pm, Darren Dale wrote:
    >> Perhaps bugs tend to sneak in because there is little or no
    >> warning before releases.

How much warning is desirable? I think for major point releases more
is good, but for bug fix releases perhaps it is less important?