On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 04:37:52PM +0200, Heiko Stuebner wrote: > Am Donnerstag 05 August 2010 schrieb Enrico Zini: > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 06:34:20PM +0200, Heiko Stübner wrote: > > > from what I heard was the 0.9.x line declared as development releases by > > > vala- upstream. > > > > I can't find any mention of 0.9.x being unstable in > > http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Release > From [1] concerning 0.9.1: > "This is more like a transitional development release torward a new 0.8.x > branch stable release." > > Which confuses me even more :-) > > > Is it something we should double check with upstream? > definitly
I've asked in #vala. I'm not sure I can quote IRC logs out of the
channel so I'm anonymising the other person just to be on the safe side:
enrico> Hi, I am confused regarding stability of vala releases. In
http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Release it looks like 0.9.4 would be
the last stable release, but in
http://valajournal.blogspot.com/2010/06/vala-091-is-out.html it
says that 0.9.1 is "a transitional development release torward
a new 0.8.x branch stable release."
enrico> was only 0.9.1 a transitional release towards a new 0.8.x
stable one, but then 0.9.2 was stable, or is all of 0.9.x a
development branch and the next stable would be some 1.0?
xxxx> enrico: I think the plan was for 0.9 to be development series but
it turned out nobody cared for stable, or something like that
xxxx> enrico: the next one should be 0.10, not 1.0
enrico> xxxx: so 0.9 is to be considered stable, or vala is to never be
considered stable?
xxxx> enrico: the latter is reasonable
enrico> xxxx: :'(
xxxx> enrico: though most of the syntax is stable already... changes
that require breaking compatibility are rare and guys recently
came up with a way to cope with that
enrico> xxxx: ok
xxxx> enrico: I think you can safely consider it stable, but not
mature... be careful with bindings, as most of the problems you
encounter will likely be with them... especially outside the G*
portfolio and with less used features...
I don't know how authoritative is that person, as he/she seems to be
reporting hearsay and doesn't sound like the vala release manager, but
from what he/she said it looks like we can either upload vala 0.9.4 to
sid or give up with vala altogether, according to what stability
requirements we want to have.
Ciao,
Enrico
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