On Saturday 30 November 2013 13:12:33 Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Frank Mehnert > Thanks for the kind reply. > > I wasn't speaking about the logistics, but rather keeping two versions > available/supported at once. > In other words, I thought that releasing a v4.3.x would obsolete all 4.2.x > releases. > > Why keeping both branches active/supported at the same time (4.3 and 4.2.x) > is what puzzles me. So I repeat my question (this time to you :), is there > any reason why anyone would use 4.2.x instead of 4.3.x? was any feature in > 4.2.x dropped in 4.3.x or is it the same (and better) to go with 4.3.x ? > > Thanks so much for your time and replies.
The reason is that every new major release changes the behavior a bit and introduces regressions and some customers / users like to keep the older behavior and stay on a branch with less invasive changes. Of course it would make our life much easier if we could ignore older branches once a new major release is out but that's not possible :) Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher
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