On Sun, 8 Apr 2018, Mark Taylor wrote:
> Sarah et al.,
>
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Sarah Graves wrote:
> >
> > > I'd like to finally make a release candidate for 2018A available for
> > > testing, hopefully next week some time. This will (hopefully) be built
> > > on Centos 6, Centos 7, Ubuntu 17.10 and OSX, as we discovered some
> > > library version issues for users on very up-to-date linux systems. I'm
> > > still having trouble with the Perl modules in the Ubuntu build, so
> > > that one may end up being dropped.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any imminent work they would like us to delay for?
> > > otherwise we'll create the release branch asap.
> > >
> > > Starjava -- normally we pick specific tags for Topcat and Splat -- so
> > > please let us know which ones we should use!
> > >
> ...
> > Hi Sarah,
> >
> > I've nothing ready for release, so no reason not to go ahead from my
> > perspective.
> >
> > Re: SPLAT, Mark there are updates on Mar 26 (feb79b8 and earlier) that I'd
> > like to see in the release. Do they fit in with your release state?
>
> I will be making a TOPCAT/STILTS release before, probably just before,
> Gaia (the other Gaia) DR2, which is April 25th. So a starjava tag
> at or after that date would be good for me.
>
> However, if you want to go ahead with 2018A earlier than that
> requires, fair enough. I would prefer not to snapshot starjava
> after the SPLAT commits Peter mentions, since there are various
> partially completed/tested/documented features on master right now.
> In that case I think it would be best to branch from topcat-4.5-1
> and cherry-pick the relevant SPLAT commits (3ea420d1 and feb79b8?)
> if that's OK by others.
Not sure if I've missed the boat, but as far as I'm concerned,
the new starjava tag topcat-4.6 would be good for release.
Thanks
Mark
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