[Rivet] Rivet 1.5.1?

[Andy Buckley]

On 09/05/11 14:47, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
> Thus spake Andy Buckley (andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk):
>
>> Since you're keen to make frequent releases, Hendrik, do you want to do
>> the procedure for this one? ;-) [Release and version number bumps,
>> update ChangeLog, tag, upload, update website, and ideally update the
>> manual on the arXiv... and I'm sure I forgot something else... oh yes,
>> update the bootstrap script and ask Genser to build it.]
>
> Okay, here I go, asking my first stupid question about the release
> procedure. In revision 3084 you changed the version number in
> configure.ac from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1a0. What is the purpose of this, other
> than forcing poor developers to rerun autoreconf and configure? I can't
> see any benefits from it.

I should really have done this immediately after the 1.5.0 release. The 
idea is to clearly distinguish runs of the trunk Rivet from the release. 
Sorry for the hassle! If you can do a similar change to 1.5.2a0 after 
releasing 1.5.1 then hopefully no-one (other than you!) will have to 
reconfigure before the next release.

However, a good reason to have made this alpha version mark is for 
testing via mcplots -- this worked very well last time, so I suggest 
that we do so again now, once we have the code in a state which we'd be 
happy to be used for pre-release testing.

Andy

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