On 27-Aug-06, at 11:42 AM, dangerous_dom wrote:
Sorry KDF, be patient with me i obviously have not got my brain with me
today, could you clarify that...
no problem.
7.0 is a stable branch of 6.5 which will not be changing. 6.5 is still
in development as before - correct?
7.0 is the trunk. Subversion trunk is always the bleeding edge.
6.5 has just been branched (around rev 9178 I believe). From this
point onward, 6.5 will only get
fixes and tweaks that have had some testing time in the trunk or are
critical needs. By definition, this makes 6.5 now a 'stable' build.
Or is it that 6.5 is considered most stable?
"most stable" is not a phrase I'm prepared to use. "Most" is
subjective, and will depend on the needs of the individual user.
What is true is that 6.5 should no longer be seeing any big new feature
shifts, which are the thing most likely to cause long term
probability of bugs. There are still bugs that remain in 6.5, as
anyone can see from a search on bugzilla. Hopefully most, if not all,
of these can/will be fixed within the timeline of 6.5. There is always
the chance that some bugs will be determined to require large rework in
order to be fixable. In those cases, the fix would have to wait for
7.0, or maybe a 6.6 if it is determined that there is a reason for a
release at that level.
After 6.5 is released, if there are minor problems found at that time,
you will likely see the 6.5 branch get renamed to 6.5.1, while the 7.0
trunk will remain 7.0 and experimental. Nothing from 7.0 would be
thrown in to 6.5.1 without the same kind of conditions as we have now
for putting something into 6.5.
Please could you put this in terms which us simplton non developer
types and understand.
hopefully I have :)
The thing is, that i still have several issues with 6.3.1 and find it
unusable due to the nature of my library. Its going to have to be a
stable 6.5 or 7.0 until the next official release.
Yes, no doubt you have some of those types of bugs that I mentioned
above. Unfixable without larger framework changes. 6.5 works very
well for me. There are the aforementioned issues, and those will vary
in importance for each user. At this point, I should think that most
users either won't see the issues or finds them to be nothing that
can't be lived with. I haven't checked if the nightly builds are
sorted out with the latest branch (as I use subversion), but I would
encourage at least considering a look at 6.5 before it is released if
you are counting on a fix for a particular issue.
-kdf
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