On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:39:19PM +0800, C Wang wrote: > Our strategy is to deliver community stable version to Opensolaris, that's > why we plan to ship 2.0.4 version. However, we will merge to 2.1.x version > when it announced to become stable version.
That would make some sense if there were any expectation that 2.1.x would ever be released. But the project has been inert for the past year and a half. Meanwhile, the latest "development" release works perfectly well, and is better than the "stable" release. There are a lot of open source projects where the development release is usually the better choice -- whether neither branch has been updated in a long time (like gqview), or whether the community simply waits a very long time between "stable" releases, despite the fact that the "development" release is production quality, and often much better than the older branch (like zsh, fvwm). It's your choice, but I think you'll end up with fewer happy customers if you choose the older version, and the new one won't be any more of a maintenance burden, since it's not changing at all, either. Danek
