>From: Alexey Eromenko >Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 4:29 PM >On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Geoff Nordli <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am trying to make a decision is we should start porting our app over >> to >> 4.0 from the 3.2 series >> >> >> >> 3.2 debuted June 2009, and we are looking at an 18 month dev cycle to >> a production grade release. It seems there was a lot of core >> functionality delivered during the 3.2 series, which takes a lot longer to >> bake. >> >> When I look at the feature set on 4.0, I don t see the same level core >> changes. It seems to be more focused on fixing some of the usability >> issues (like media management). I would expect this version to >> stabilize a lot sooner than the 3.2 series. >> >> >> >> Do you agree? >> > >Disagree. >1. v3.2.0 BETA released on Apr.2010, so we talk about 8 month release cycle. >2. v3.2 had more new Enterprise-class features, while v4.0 has more new User- >oriented features. (Aero, better 3D graphics, ...) > >Overall the amount of new stuff is not small for both releases. > You are right, that was a cerebral hemorrhage. It appears to be the 3.0 release date I was comparing it to.
I am thinking though the stability of the core system will tend to mature rather quickly with this release. We only use the system for the backend functionality. The parts I do like is the cleanup with the session management, disk media handling, and async io. Geoff _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
