Re: .classpath changes in version 4896

From: Ken Anderson (kenlist..nderhome.com)
Date: Fri Feb 29 2008 - 17:29:33 EST

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    Unless, of course, you don't need the thing that he needs... in which
    case, you might never know :)

    On Feb 29, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:

    > Keep in mind that I RUN off of nightly for all my production
    > development, so it's usually not going to be but SO broken or I
    > can't get any work done :)
    >
    > ms
    >
    > On Feb 29, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Thomas wrote:
    >
    >> Mike,
    >>
    >> that's a great idea. I for one would happily change from a
    >> fingernail-biting "nightly" user to an excited "preview" user.
    >>
    >> But I just want to say thanks for your careful work. I haven't
    >> updated my nightly often, but it has never left me stuck and unable
    >> to deploy a new version of my live customer applications.
    >>
    >> Regards
    >> Thomas
    >>
    >> On 01/03/2008, at 8:32 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
    >>
    >>>> Apologies... stable.equals(nightly), stable != nightly. So yes,
    >>>> at this instant (well not anymore, because i committed to nightly
    >>>> already), stable is the same as nightly, but stable is stable,
    >>>> and will be for a while. Stable was stable for 8 months before
    >>>> this, it's just that Leopard sort of ruined messed everything up.
    >>> I'm thinking there should be a "stable," "preview," and "nightly"
    >>> build. "stable" would be where everyone who just likes things to
    >>> "work the work they work" can use. People who like cool new
    >>> features, but don't want TOTALLY broken stuff can update off of
    >>> "preview," and "nightly" is like dudes chasing oiled pigs. This
    >>> new classpath stuff is a good example. I actually have mostly
    >>> working patches for a large part of it, so I can commit that to
    >>> nightly, get it integrated, promote it to preview for daring folks
    >>> (who still need to get work done) can update from and work with
    >>> it. If there are any issues, they can always go back down to
    >>> stable, but I can still continue to add riskier features on nightly.
    >>>
    >>> ms
    >>>
    >>>
    >>
    >
    >



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