Hi Rick, all!
Rick Robinson wrote:
Just a question on upcoming MySQL 5.0.x releases...what the heck is going on? I
see doc notes for 5.0.8, 5.0.9, and 5.0.10 all concurrently. Is the plan to
merge all these together for a single 5.0.10 release? Or will there be a 5.0.11
that merges all these?
Version 5.0.7 was published on June 15 and is available for download.
Version 5.0.8 was built for internal use and was not published. So there
are changes associated with exacrly that version.
Version 5.0.9 is to be published soon, will then be available for download.
Version 5.0.10 will contain changes which were not yet finished when the
build of 5.0.9 was started (as well as those of 5.0.9 and earlier).
Sure there will also be 5.0.11 etc. later.
To state it explicitly: Within a release family (like 5.0), all versions
are cumulative; any later version is based on its predecessor and then
contains some new changes (documented in the manual).
Just curious, as it seems that this trend of multiple concurrent branches has
really picked up steam in 5.0.x.
That is an impression you may well get, but it is wrong.
It is most likely caused by a change in the release build process within
MySQL: We now "clone" the current source when we start a release build.
In this way, developers can continue to push changes, while there is a
stable code base for the release build which even allows to integrate
specific (= selected) changes, should they prove necessary.
(Of course, any such changes will also be pushed into the ongoing
development, they will not get lost.)
However, the online manual is not cloned, so while we are building 5.0.9
there can also be new text for 5.0.10 changes that gets integrated into
the online manual, and this may become visible earlier than 5.0.9 gets
published.
So we do not have concurrent branches within 5.0, but we are basing
release builds on snapshots taken from ongoing development, while the
online manual is outside these snapshots.
Regards,
Jörg
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