2008.12.17 20:54 "[Tiff] Deleting tags from a directory", by Frank Warmerdam

2008.12.18 19:28 "Re: [Tiff] 3.9.0 release, Was: tiffvers.h - TIFFLIB_RELEASE macro addition", by Lee Howard

Frank Warmerdam wrote:

>>> OK, I'm finding interest in TIFFLIB_RELEASE lukewarm at best, and I >>> have decided against going ahead with it.

Sure. But since it's kind-of on-topic... how is the 3.9.0 release coming?

There was a lot of chatter about it some time ago... some people insisting that the time wasn't right and that some changes needed to occur first. But, have those changes happened?

Once per week I feel guilty about having done nothing, as I believe you predicted might happen. I don't even recall the issue in great deal and one thing that holds me back is the need to do a bunch of research to understand the issue fully.

I don't want you feeling guilty. It's not your job to satisfy everyone's whims with respect to the software. I think you're just the maintainer, which means you guide things along and arrange releases. I don't think that you're responsible to code up things upon request.

I *do* feel like those who had some complaint against releasing 3.9.0 immediately need to step forward with appropriate code changes. Certainly they should be afforded time to develop those patches, but my impression is that those patches aren't coming ever. So they either need to do so, or we need to move on without those changes.

It's just my opinion, of course, that some release is better than no release.

Thanks,

Lee.