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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Wayne!  I'll format that machine today, and work on adding it to
speed up V5 builds.

The chances of getting another working V4 macOS build will be just about
zero now anyway :)

Adam

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018, 12:18 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As long as I am the project leader the chances are zero.  I cannot speak
> on behalf of my successor. ;)  Unless someone volunteers to maintain the
> 4 branch, I think it's pretty safe to assume there will not be another 4
> branch.  I have no intention of spending valuable developer resources
> maintaining the 4 branch.  That's why there has been no 4.0.8 release
> even though there are bugs in it that need fixed.  The dev branch code
> base has deviated so far from the 4.0 branch that even the most trivial
> bug fixes are painful.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 7/23/2018 1:34 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> > Hi folks!
> > The macOS build process for V4 was somewhat made of shoe strings and
> > bubble gum and crossed fingers, and I am not confident that my
> > hand-tweaked dependencies were reproducible, so the V4 build machine
> > does literally nothing else but wait for me to tell it to make another
> > release.
> >
> > At what point is it guaranteed that we will not need to make another
> > V4 release?  Now?  I'd love to reuse that machine to do parallel V5
> > builds, but I don't want to touch it until we *know* we won't make any
> > V4 releases.
> >
> > Adam
> >
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