Hi Wilfried, you can also have a look at https://code.google.com/p/v8-wiki/wiki/ReleaseProcess which describes the point of the different types of branches.
Cheers, Michael On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 5:40:10 PM UTC+2, Jakob Kummerow wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Wilfried Gösgens <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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 that, it's outdated, it has known security/stability bugs which will never 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 Just more outdated.)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.
