[m-rev.] for review: configure --enable-ssdebug-grades

[Peter Wang]

On 2010-07-29, Paul Bone <pbone at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:39:45PM +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> > Branches: main, 10.04
> > 
> 
> I don't understand our policy regarding 10.04.  Since this patch doesn't fix a
> bug I don't know why we would include it on a release branch.  Presumably _if_
> we release a 10.04.1 it would only contain fixes to 10.04 and not new features.

Releases are for users (i.e. MC ;-)), and getting new features out to users,
if they are definitely undisruptive, would seem to be good policy.
This change in particular is especially user-centric.

> Any reson for not suggesting ./configure --enable-libgrades=<explicit list> ?

The person to whom the message is addressed presumably has no idea what
a "grade" is.  I don't think you'll find it spelt out in any of the
top-level documentation files either.

Peter
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