Checking out the release branch is fine; the 0.3.1 tag is on that branch. On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:12 PM, John Myles White <[email protected] > wrote:
> I think it's more correct to check out tags since there seems to be work > being done progressively on that branch to keep up with backports. > > Not totally sure, though. > > -- John > > On Sep 25, 2014, at 7:58 PM, David P. Sanders <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > El jueves, 25 de septiembre de 2014 19:59:41 UTC-5, John Myles White > escribió: >> >> I just wanted to suggest that almost everyone on this mailing list should >> be using Julia 0.3, not Julia 0.4. Julia 0.4 changes dramatically from day >> to day and is probably not safe for most use cases. >> >> I'd suggest the following criterion: "are you reading the comment threads >> for the majority of issues being filed on the Julia GitHub repo?" If the >> answer is no, you probably should use Julia 0.3. >> > > Thanks for the nice, clear statement, John! > > Currently I have been using > > git checkout release-0.3 > > and compiling from there. > > Is this the "correct" thing to do? I notice there is now a v0.3.1 tag. > > David. > >> >> -- John >> >> >
