On Wednesday, May 6, 2020, Vladimir Sitnikov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Philippe>Do you think that providing a stable name for latest version of > JMeter > Philippe>(without version suffix) would be useful ? > > Can you please clarify? > Do you mean something like https://host/path/apache-jmeter-latest.zip ? yes > > It would hurt reproducibility. The issue would be like "it worked > yesterday, but it fails in another machine today". > We should refrain from advising the users to use "the latest version" > unless we are sure it works in 99.42%. Sha512 plus the rest of links on page with explicit version information would avoid this > > If we could make "daily/weekly releases" (see https://liquidsoftware.com/ > ), > then we could consider making "the latest the default". > For instance, no-one cares what is FireFox / Chrome version because it > updates constantly, and the update brings little risks. > On the other hand, JMeter releases are not frequent, and they might break > something, so we should not suggest users to blindly update to the latest. yes but we’re clear about this in release notes > ---- > > What is the exact scenario you are trying to cover? > > Do you mean "GitHub Action for running the latest JMeter"? > In that case, "the latest release" is not enough. > It would be great to have the following as well: "latest nightly", "latest > rc", "latest release" (see > https://github.com/marketplace/actions/gradle-command#setup-and-use-a- > declared-gradle-version > ) yes this way looks good > > Vladimir > -- Cordialement. Philippe Mouawad.
