Hi Ian, Using a pre-RC 'in-development' patch-it-up version for production systems isn't an option for some of the more conservative employers out there. It makes them nervous.
Even when a release candidate is approved and a version is released, it doesn't mean Google won't put undocumented breaking changes in it in the mean time, so you can never be sure what you are or aren't going to get. This doesn't do much for the more nervous managers either. Some of them still use sealing wax. Others have to hug trees until they feel better. That's why they have yukkas in their offices. The way I work, if a release candidate is approved, that candidate becomes the final version - you don't release a new version as the final version which has been quite seriously (and breakingly) changed and is untested by the people you release candidates to. In my book a release candidate is not a release candidate if it's not a candidate for release. I obviously have different definitions to Google. On the other hand maybe it's a cultural thing - where I'm from, in elections, the person with the most votes wins. But I like GWT, and I realise that if I want to use it, I have to accept that this is the way Google do things. That's OK. Ian http://examples.roughian.com 2008/10/8 Ian Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Ian Bambury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Previous experience would suggest that you won't even get 24 hours > notice. > > > > The idea of allowing external developers to plan ahead is alien to > Google. > > They seem to work on IBM's FUD principle. > > Ian > > PS: I have a love/hate relationship with GWT > > I think that's a _little_ bit unfair. Strictly, you're speaking the > truth. GWT 1.5 wasn't really announced until it was done. But, if > you're waiting for something in particular, it would be a good idea to > be on the GWT-Contributors list. The 1.5 branch was "ready" a long > time before it was ready and lots of people in the community were > using the trunk even before the RCs were released. I expect to have a > similar experience next time, whether that's 1.6 or 2.0. > > Ian > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
