Re: 4.0a3 - Two Regular Expression Libraries? -- We need your input!
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Mar 22, 2009
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One advantage to the "binding the dll as a resource" approach is that one can update the resource with a newer version of the dll when necessary (e.g. we need to update due to a security flaw in the older version). It is not necessary to recompile the interpreter .exe, or any bound programs, to do this.
This more I think about this, I'm for more frequent releases of Euphoria, big or small. For instance, one product I work with that I really enjoy has a 3 month cycle. New products will be released every 3 months, even if only a few bug fixes. If we manage the SVN repo right, a new relase w/fixed pcre (or any other flaw in Euphoria) should be easy to accomplish. Here's how...
When I release a version of Euphoria, I tag the svn TRUNK, for instance, http://rapideuphoria.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rapideuphoria/tags
We then continue working on SVN trunk as if nothing happened. Now, we have the tag. Let's say svn trunk is 1/2 thru it's release cycle and a major flaw is found (in anything, PCRE, Euphoria std lib, Euphoria core), we tag a new version (say 4.0.1 off of tags/4.0.0) and we make the appropriate fixes to code, and run the package scripts to release 4.0.1. We then simply merge tags/4.0.1 into trunk and the changes made in 4.0.1 are then applied to our SVN trunk, where the next version of Euphoria will come from.
Jeremy
