Stephane Bailliez wrote:
AFAIK development effort is focused on 5.5.x and some stuff backported in 5.0.x. Until what point is it reasonable to expect something on the 5.0.x branch ? Did you agree on a pseudo milestone to drop support ?
Branches are supported as long as there are people willing to do the work. 3.3 is still supported, for example.
Fair enough, but resources are scarce, and fixing bugs and rolling releases takes time. Last TC 3.3 release was 10 months ago, there has been 1 release of TC 4.1 in the last 6 months and obvious effort are on TC 5 since it is the latest API.
I just wanted to figure out what's the effort like on the 2 branches and if 5.5 is considered to be somewhat production ready from your point.
I have had myself patches on the manager app against 4.1.30 in bugzilla since may 2004 that I did for some customers. it's no big deal but if they ask me to fix something else, I may tell them to upgrade to 5.x instead.
At this point I'm using 5.0.x which looks good so far, but did not try it in production yet. And was putting myself aside of 5.5.x (see below).
5.5.x uses JRE 5.0 which may or may not be appropriate for many organizations, so 5.0.x remains an in-between alternative for many environments, but I'd like your developer opinion on the status of each branch as of today.
5.5 does not require Java 5. The default binary is packaged for Java 5, and there's a compatibility package adding a few JARs for Java 1.4.
Crap. I don't know how to read. Doh !
Thanks for the head up.
Stephane
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