sure. but it is the magnitude of those changes. beta should more or less be feature complete. all these changes you are backporting are features.
-igor On 3/14/07, Johan Compagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
beta == changes can happen.. beta != api is stable. johan On 3/11/07, Igor Vaynberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i am afraid of people starting to use it. put a lot of time into it, then > upgrade to beta2 and have to redo a bunch of crap. if this happened to me > id > be pissed, i dont like to have the poverbial rug pulled from under me when > im using a beta. > > if we are going to break it then lets at least do it before we have any > sort > of a public release. until then people who dont mind living on the > bleeding > edge can build from source - which those kinds of people do anyways. > > -igor > > > On 3/10/07, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > i dont see how you expect to get traction when people know there are > big > > api > > > breaks coming soon? why try something that will be completely broken > in > > a > > > week? > > > > We're not making this build for new people to try out. > > > > > the people who are interested are the people who build from source > > > > Yes, like us. And like I said, before I want to start working on the > > last few breaks, I'd like to take a breath and have a version without > > the breaks of which i know it works well, so that while I'm upgrading > > and testing in the background, the rest of the team can go on and we > > can make a deployment with it. I'm sure this would be appreciated by > > more people who currently work on 1.3. > > > > >, so i dont see any reason to create any publically accessible > artifact. > > > > What are you afraid of? > > > > Eelco > > >
