> Nightly *was* a standard word in the Eclipse community, it reminds me the > time when people could not poll SCM and before continuous integration > existed, and everyone used PDE/Build... That's now a freaky word for me: a > project that only builds once a night is not healthy. > Latest is interesting, but latest what? latest release, latest test > build...? It is not precise enough I think. > > I could advocate for Snapshots for years, we probably need more opinions > rather than debating for weeks just the 2 of us ;) >
How about "continuous" then. > We could also include some eclipse release name. (indigo/helios) > > Hopefully we will provide builds that would work with 3.5 and later. > Binding a build to the name of a release will make people think that the > release is a requirement for installation. > Yes, but at some point this will no longer work. Because it is a matter of time before people start using touch API and/or restyling and other stuff that will break compatibility with older SWT releases. I also want to think about things as long term support (LTS) where we must be able to fix Nebula bugs against older versions of Eclipse (but that is a separate discussion).
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