On 24 Apr 2004, at 18:48, Carsten Ziegeler wrote:

Apache HTTPD is (I believe) doing this: 2.0 is "stable", 2.1
is "unstable", and it will be released further down along the
platform either as 2.2 (if backwards compatibility can be
preserved) or 3.0 (if the new design emerged in 2.1 requires
major changes).
Ah ok, yes, I think this makes sense. I thought we don't
use versions for this, so we have something like a sandbox
in our repository for such things. But I'm fine with that
as well.

A "sandbox" is fine for developing a small bit... For example, my version of the kernel is in the sandbox now... When (let's say) we want to start rewriting stuff (Cocoon core) around it, we'll have to take it out of the sandbox, and break a lot of contracts...

Having a separate tree of "unstable" versions allows people to go on for longer with broken / not compiling code without being worried of having broken the main "stable" build.

Pier


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