2008.06.16 11:51 "[Tiff] ... a year with no release (?)", by Lee Howard
Hello all.
I'm just looking at some dates here...
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (198,202,74,218,148,222)
150 Here comes the directory listing.
drwxr-xr-x 3 ftp ftp 4096 Mar 29 2007 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 Mar 29 2007 doc
drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 Mar 29 2007 old
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 3459016 Mar 29 2007 pics-3.8.0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 1336295 Mar 29 2007 tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 1711128 Mar 29 2007 tiff-3.8.2.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 1342439 Jul 13 2007
tiff-3.9.0beta.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 1724642 Jul 13 2007 tiff-3.9.0beta.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 1328686 Jul 13 2007
tiff-4.0.0alpha.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 1688179 Jul 13 2007 tiff-4.0.0alpha.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 1634488 May 19 08:52
tiff-4.0.0beta1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 2028949 May 19 08:53 tiff-4.0.0beta1.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 1643931 May 24 19:01
tiff-4.0.0beta2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 2038712 May 24 19:03 tiff-4.0.0beta2.zip
226 Directory send OK.
ftp>
I see that 4.0.0 has progressed from alpha to two betas in the last month, but is it, perhaps, time to release 3.9.0? Or should we libtiff users start to ignore what appears to be a dead branch (3.9) and just migrate to 4.0?
In other words, will 4.0.0 end up being released before 3.9.0? Or is the plan to release them simultaneously? (And if so, on what should users base their choice between them?)
Thanks,
Lee.