[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.6 available for testing

[glennrp at comcast.net]

OT for zlib but anyhow....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Enrico Weigelt" <weigelt at metux.de>

[describes how his project has lots of GIT branches]

     Libpng has 5 GIT branches right now

        alpha  (libpng-1.5.0alpha01, not yet tarballed)
        devel  (libpng-1.4.0rcNN, will be 1.5.0beta01)
        master (libpng-1.4.1beta01, was 1.2.42rcNN)
        stable (1.2.42)
        legacy (1.2.43betaNN)
     
     Note that 1.0.x isn't in the repo since 1.0.11
     or 1.0.12 when 1.2.0 branched off from it.
     That's because there really isn't a source for
     1.0.X since then; 1.0.X distributions are
     generated by a script from the 1.2.X sources.

     I probably botched the transfer of libpng-1.4.0
     from the devel branch to the master branch.  I
     wound up with an extra copy of the library
     that doesn't connect to the history in the
     devel branch.  Same problem with the move of
     libpng-1.2.42 from master to legacy.

     I'm sure there is an easy way to do what I
     wanted, but I guess there is not much point
     in learning how now because it will probably
     be a few years before I need to do it again.

BTW: please fix the git url for libpng, has to be:
git://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libpng/libpng
(missed the last "/libpng").

     I assume you speak of the link on the libpng
     page.  Greg Roelofs maintains that and I've
     sent him a request to fix it.  Is it wrong
     elsewhere?

     Glenn