2018.10.28 15:09 "Re: [Tiff] Releasing more frequently", by Bob Friesenhahn

On Sun, 28 Oct 2018, coypu@sdf.org wrote:

Would you consider the latest git to be somewhat stable?

The latest git is almost always stable since it gets a lot of testing, including via continuous automated means. Libtiff is included in the oss-fuzz test framework directly, and via several different projects, and each libtiff commit is automatically verified to build and pass the test suite.

However, the next libtiff will include some major new features (e.g. ZStd and WebP compression support).

Now would be a good time for interested parties to verify that development libtiff does not cause any issues, whether in libtiff itself, or software depending on libtiff. Libtiff may optionally be depending on two additional libraries and support is defaulted to on.

It would be good for dependent software which normally supports most libtiff features to add support for ZStd and WebP soon, as I already did in GraphicsMagick.

Could I convince you to release more often? :-) I assume other people want to have the fixes, the ease of telling if there's something notable that resulted in a different version number, etc.

You make a good point that it will soon be a year since the last libtiff release. I do plan to make another release and hopefully before a whole year has elapsed since the previous release.

Regardless of how many releases we do, it is likely that some fix appears in Git which is not in a release.

Bob
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