Dan, Was wondering why you didn't simply release nightly builds. Harsh, I do my best to ask questions sensibly. - Anil
On Mar 27, 12:49 pm, "Dan Morrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In this sense, the Android team sticked to the Google code hosting > > motto (http://code.google.com/hosting/) "release early, release > > often" on the first part - they indeed released a pre-alpha SDK - but > > I personally think they could have done better on the "release often" > > part. > > We agree, actually. :) Unfortunately since we are focused on shipping the > first devices, we have to balance the work involved in packaging (and > especially testing) SDK releases against the work on the platform itself. > > I don't know whether another update would be released before the > > > challenge deadline. Given that it less than 2 1/2 weeks from now, I'd > > say it is rather unlikely that many developers will risk having to > > debug their programs from scratch again > > Yes, for exactly this reason we don't plan to release another major SDK > before the deadline. It would not be cool to release a new SDK with tons of > changes mere weeks before the deadline. Some developers would feel > compelled to pull "all-nighters" to upgrade, and that's not what we intend. > > - Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
