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Re: api differences between 1.4 and 1.6
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Neil Jerram |
Subject: |
Re: api differences between 1.4 and 1.6 |
Date: |
11 Mar 2002 20:33:52 +0000 |
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>>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
Marius> It is OK, but it is not that important. We should concentrate all
Marius> significant improvements into the 1.7 series and aim for a quick 1.8
Marius> release instead of putting a lot of work into both 1.6 and 1.7.
I basically agree. Especially that we should aim for a much shorter
release cycle to 1.8. But I have two practical worries:
- The divergence between the 1.6 and 1.8 documentation is becoming
difficult to keep track of. Structurally, 1.8 is quite different,
yet I don't want to lose any fixes that have gone into 1.6.
- In order to be certain that we're not scuppering people in 1.8, I
think we should aim to achieve a similar completeness of
documentation in both 1.8 and the later 1.6.x.
As a purely pragmatic approach, therefore, I'd like to progressively
reduce the differences between 1.6.x and 1.8 documentation by
backporting the changes that are equally applicable to 1.6.x. A side
effect of this will be that the 1.6.x documentation becomes more
complete, even though my efforts will be (as they have been for some
time) focussed on 1.8.
Neil
Re: api differences between 1.4 and 1.6, Rob Browning, 2002/03/09
Re: api differences between 1.4 and 1.6, Marius Vollmer, 2002/03/09