Master should be usable, but many packages won't be. Given the limited bandwidth of package maintainers, and the scope of pending changes, supporting both 0.3 and 0.4-dev is probably not realistic for many packages. On Sep 26, 2014 3:19 AM, "Ivar Nesje" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this is a too strong statement. There are definitely happening a > lot on the master (0.4-dev) branch, but it should be quite usable even > without reading the majority of Github issues. The more users we have, the > earlier concerns is raised, and the earlier we can fix them and prepare for > the final release. You should definitely avoid master on any project with a > deadline tough. > > For people compiling julia from source, it would be a great service to the > community to use `release-0.3` instead of the explicit version tags. All > changes to release-0.3 is first tested on master before they are backported > if they don > > kl. 06:15:11 UTC+2 fredag 26. september 2014 skrev Steve Kelly følgende: >> >> Case and point: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/ >> 2ef8d31b6b05ed0a8934c7a13f6490939a30b24b >> >> :) >> >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Isaiah Norton <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>
