The frequent releases are not a problem as far as I am concerned. I'd rather have bugs fixed quickly when they are discovered, than wait months for releases containing needed fixes like other libraries. We use the loose pre-generated C files (not the amalgamation) and even then it only takes me about 10-20 minutes to integrate a new release and about another 10-40 minutes to run it through our unit tests.
Daniel -----Original Message----- From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Mike McGonagle Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:57 AM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: Re: [sqlite] SQLite version 3.6.10 Thank you for these releases, I appreciate (and agree) with your reasons for the many releases. For me, it really is so simple that all I do is take the Amalgamated version and swap it out for the previous version. I can only think that anyone who has troubles with a swap like this may be doing things that are either undocumented, or are to get around things they want to do... just my $0.02... Thanks again. Michael McGonagle On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:07 AM, D. Richard Hipp <d...@hwaci.com> wrote: > SQLite version 3.6.10 is now available on the website. Upgrading is > recommended for all users. > > http://www.sqlite.org/ > http://www.sqlite.org/news.html > http://www.sqlite.org/download.html > > SQLite version 3.6.10 fixes a cache coherency bug (Ticket #3584) > introduced by check-in [5864] which was part of version 3.6.5. This > bug might lead to database corruption, hence we felt it was important > to get it out as quickly as possible, even though there had already > been two prior releases this week. > > Some concern has been expressed that we are releasing too frequently. > (Three releases in one week is a lot!) The concern is that this > creates the impression of volatility and unreliability. We have been > told that we should delay releases in order to create the impression > of stability. But the SQLite developers feel that truth is more > important than perception, not the other way around. We think it is > important to make the highest quality and most stable version of > SQLite available to users at all times. This week has seen two > important bugs being discovered shortly after a major release, and so > we have issued two emergency patch releases after the regularly > scheduled major release. This makes us look bad. This puts "egg on our > face." We do not like that. But, three releases also ensures that the > best quality SQLite code base is available available to you at all > times. > > It has been suggested that "beta" releases might find these kinds of > bugs prior to a major release. But our experience indicates otherwise. > The two issues that prompted releases 3.6.9 and 3.6.10 were both > discovered by internal testing and review - not by external users. > And, indeed, most the problems found in SQLite these days are > discovered by our rigorous internal testing protocol, not bug reports > from the field. > > It has also been argued that we should withhold releases "until > testing is finished." The falacy there is that we never finish > testing. We are constantly writing new test cases for SQLite and > thinking of new ways to stress and potentially break the code. This is > a continuous, never-ending, and on-going process. All existing tests > pass before each release. But we will always be writing new tests the > day after a release, regardless of how long we delay that release. And > sometimes those new tests will uncover new problems. > > All this is to say that we believe that SQLite version 3.6.10 is the > most stable, most thoroughly tested, and bug-free version of SQLite > that has ever existed. Please do not be freaked out by three releases > occurring in one week. > > D. Richard Hipp > d...@hwaci.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- Peace may sound simple-one beautiful word- but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. -Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999), musician _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
