Re: superunstable

From: David Avendasora (webobject..vendasora.com)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2008 - 13:18:39 EST

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    This is going to get really confusing.

    What if instead of trying to repurpose existing directories, you came
    up with 3 new ones and deprecated the old ones?

    Stable remains Stable
    Nightly remains the current Nightly build

    Add a "Release" that contains the current Stable
    Add a "Beta" that is the current build in Nightly,
    Add a "Alpha" that is the superunstable that is the really
    experimental stuff

    Beta will wait for any bugs found in the Alpha to be fixed before
    being updated, but I think it will be much less confusing than trying
    to maintain the existing structure.

    People that are pointing to Stable or Nightly will just continue to
    get the existing stuff for now.

    Dave

    On Jan 29, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:

    > I'm contemplating the following:
    >
    > * Leave stable where it is for right now
    > * Stop the nightly updates of "nightly"
    > * Make a new "superunstable" folder that nightly builds build into
    > * Commit the new classpath stuff
    > * Sit back and watch the explosions
    >
    > I believe it is working OK inside of Eclipse (and I have a good
    > handle on fixing anything that comes up), but my big concern is the
    > build.xml files. There were fairly significant changes made, and
    > it's really hard to know what CRAZY stuff people are doing inside
    > their build.xml files, and I'm pretty confident there are going to
    > be problems with it (did I mention I really hate ant?).
    >
    > The complication with this particular change is that there are
    > people still using 4118 on stable, and there are people now using
    > "nightly" as a "stable" for the new Eclipse/Leopard, so we have to
    > have a REAL unstable place so that people who really want to try
    > the broken stuff can do so while not breaking the other people even
    > more in the meantime.
    >
    > Thoughts?
    >
    > ms
    >
    >
    >



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