Thanks, I will check out the CVS. Are builds that appear on the Apache Batik website "safer" (~less likely to have bugs, more robust) than builds like 1.5.1 that are only in CVS? Also, are builds without "rc" or "beta" somehow 'safer' than those with?
There is some level of additional testing that goes with any of the 'official' releases, rc, beta or otherwise. We haven't been incredibly strict with our release naming conventions, but the idea is:
'beta' releases are introducing significant new functionality that has
not been widely tested (because it's new).'rc' or release candidates are intended to allow developers who aren't
interested in mucking with source/CVS to test their software with
code that is as close as possible to the release code.
Hopefully, regressions dealing with application idiosyncraticies
can be dealt with here (like Bibek's text hit problem).Major point releases are 'stable' way points.
Minor point releases are mostly bug fix releases.
Batik has a very well developed test infrastructure (regard) that makes sure that most bugs get caught before the code is delivered to CVS. There is an additional set of 'interactive' tests that are run before any release, and generally all the committers run what ever 'side' code/applications etc they have access to before the release.
For a point of reference I do lots of presentations/demos etc with CVS Batik w/o worrying about it.
There are also 'nightly builds' which is just what ever happens to be in CVS at around 10pm (US West coast time). These are intended for people who would use CVS but can't for what ever reason (usually corporate firewall).
BTW the code tagged as 1.5.1 has gone through the additional 'interactive' tests.
Randy
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From: Thomas DeWeese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:52 AM
To: Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Any release plans?
Baron, Randy {PRG~Basel} wrote:
I was wondering if anyone knows if there might be plans for a 1.5.1 release. I saw a message about it in November, http://koala.ilog.fr/batik/mlists/batik-users/archives/msg04679.html,
and then Batik 1.5.1 release candidate 2 came in December but nothing since then.
Yes, in fact if you look in the repository there is already a Tag for the 1.5.1 release.
Or alternatively, does anyone know if there would be much of a disadvantage in using 1.5.1rc2 instead of waiting for 1.5.1?
The current improvements in 1.5.1: 1) A memory leak in 'use' element for local refs is fixed. 2) A few minor fixes in JSVGScrollPane (probably doesn't effect most usages). 3) The JavaScript engine now wraps all returned objects.
I may look at the text regression reported by Bibek.
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