On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:18 PM, <casper....@sun.com> wrote:
>
>
>>But it's not a good reason to make dev builds inaccessible to broad community
>>at all for a prolonged period of time. If upgrading mess is a concern, the
>>ongoing dev can be swtiched to an alternative publicly available repo
>>temporarily, so those who know what they are doing and aren't planning to
>>switch to the release branch can use the most up to date build.
>>--
>
>
> The main reason, I believe, is that once you upgrade to a "dev" build
> beyond the next release, you can never upgrade (downgrade) to the release
> when it hits the server.
That used to be an issue when there was only one repository that
hosted both release and dev binaries.
Since the split has taken place it is not an issue anymore - those who
want release just do not configure dev repo and are happy.
In fact it works like that for quite some time (since the split, naturally)
Those who are following dev usually do not care about release anyhow,
and in rare cases that they do care they tend to keep an old enough BE
around to be able to upgrade to release if needed.
The main reason must be something else...
--
Regards,
Cyril
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