Numbered releases?

[apjanke]

It would be nice if there were named/numbered releases for this project, so users could know which points in the commit history are stable, download distributions for them instead of cloning the repo, and refer to them by name.

For example, Homebrew requires a named release. It was using the v2.0 tag, but that seems to have disappeared.

[Andersbakken]

Hi

We don't actually have releases but rather a rolling master branch :-)

I killed the v2.0 tag mostly because I was worried that people would use it and mistakenly assume it was "the last stable release". I guess we could introduce some sort of releases but traditionally I've just forgotten to mark anything as a release. Homebrew requires a named tag?

I guess for the time being I could reintroduce it but I don't really like the idea of people staying on older versions very long.

[adzenith]

Homebrew used to have a separate repo for head-only software, but it's been deprecated. Their fear appears to be that dependencies will break when unversioned software is used. Only versioned software is allowed now—this can be named tags (Github "releases"), tarballs on a server, or anything else really.

Would you be willing to tag releases every once in a while for this purpose? Or maybe we could start a discussion over on Homebrew?

Otherwise, and for other users coming here in the meantime, you can still install rtags using brew install --HEAD rtags.

Thanks!

[casch-at]

@apjanke @apjanke We have created a tag 2.1 which is almost up to date.
I'm closing this issue now!

regards,
Christian

[adzenith]

Thank you!

[adzenith]

I sent a pull request to bring rtags back into Homebrew.

[Andersbakken]

Thanks. We'll try to do a "release" every once in a while :-)

Anders

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I sent a pull request to bring rtags back into Homebrew.

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[adzenith]

Thanks! I appreciate your being so accommodating :)

[apjanke]

Thanks all for your attention to this. It's back up in Homebrew now.

[Andersbakken]

Awesome. I'll try to remember to do another release every couple of months
or so.

Anders

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Thanks all for your attention to this. It's back up in Homebrew now.

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