On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Wilfried Gösgens <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Ok,
> looking at...
> https://gist.github.com/domenic/aca7774a5d94156bfcc1
> would give me this URL:
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git/+/branch-heads/4.1
>

How does it "give you" 4.1? It tells you to use the same branch as stable
Chrome, no? Which is 4.4, as I've said before.


> which reads:
>
> Version 4.1.0.27 (cherry-pick)
>
> Correct, that's the tip of the 4.1 branch.

> But git only shows me versions with 3.xx and 4.2.xx, 4.3.xx, 4.5.xx and 
> 4.6.xx?
>
>
Huh?
$ git log -1 --pretty=oneline branch-heads/4.1
901b67916dc2626158f42af5b5c520ede8752da2 Version 4.1.0.27 (cherry-pick)

> Whats the point in having a 3 pages long Readme
>
> Huh? What 3-pages long Readme?

*Look at the V8 version x.y.z.w of Chrome-Stable on omahaproxy.com
<http://omahaproxy.com> (second-to-last column), take the "x.y" part and
plug it into chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git/+/branch-heads/x.y
<http://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git/+/branch-heads/x.y>. *

Done, that's it. If even that is too long for your taste, use this
approximation:

*Look at the V8 version x.y.z.w of Chrome-Stable on omahaproxy.com
<http://omahaproxy.com>.*

>  how to find out which is a release instead of having a wiki page with 
> '1.5.2015 V8 release xyz, maintained until 15.6.2015'?
>
> Because that wiki page would both be more verbose than the one-liner
above, and quite boring to update every six weeks.

Being a long time Contributor to citadel.org and libical, we also got down
> to doing something like this - Even with a changelog listing the features.
>
> Reading the GIST, I guess (once more..) the last stable release before
> 3.31.74.1 was 3.29.88.19 ?
>

Nope, there was a branch-heads/3.30 in between those two. But don't use
that, it's outdated, it has known security/stability bugs which will never
be patched. (You seem to think that 3.x is somehow better than 4.x. It's
not. Not more stable either. Just more outdated.)


>
> On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 3:54:26 PM UTC+2, Jakob Kummerow wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Wilfried Gösgens <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hm, that explains a lot.
>>> Its pretty hard to tell what actually _is_ a v8 release and what not.
>>>
>>
>> In an open source world, every commit is a "release". We happen to create
>> 1-3 daily snapshots that have version numbers, mostly to make it easier to
>> talk about them.
>>
>>
>>> The closest thing I could find was browse http://omahaproxy.appspot.com/
>>> -
>>>
>>
>> Could have searched this list, would have found e.g.
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/v8-users/RkobpinkoKM with
>> detailed instructions and examples.
>>
>>
>>> and whenever all 'stable' columns point to the same version, thats a
>>> release.
>>>
>>
>> Picking whatever is shipping in Chrome-stable is a reasonable rule of
>> thumb. (Stable versions for Linux/Mac/Windows should always be in sync;
>> CrOS and Android often lag behind a few days.)
>>
>>
>>> Is there a better way? and which was the next stable release after
>>> 3.31.74.1?
>>>
>>
>> The stable branch you're asking for is branch-heads/4.1, but note that
>> this, too, has reached its end of life months ago. The currently supported
>> stable branch is branch-heads/4.4. Every branch has a support period of 6
>> weeks, there are no long-term support branches or anything like that.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 2:24:31 PM UTC+2, Jakob Kummerow wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 3.31.74.1 was a failed attempt at creating a sufficiently stable basis
>>>> for a branch point, and is totally unsupported. Pretty bad idea to use that
>>>> in production. I'm not surprised it's crashing.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
>>>>> Groups "v8-users" group.
>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
>>>>> an email to [email protected].
>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>

-- 
-- 
v8-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
--- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"v8-users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to