On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 20:15, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 19:18, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> >> wrote: >> >... >> >> BTW: Someone mentioned using svn 1.7 beta1 and some said it was not >> >> released yet. Collabnet disagree as beta1 is listed here: >> >> >> >> https://ctf.open.collab.net/sf/frs/do/viewRelease/projects.csvn/frs.svn_binaries.windows >> >> CollabNet should not have posted that tarball. It was never blessed >> and released by the Apache Subversion team. In fact, we *withdrew* our >> beta1 candidate. There is not, and never will be, a 1.7.0 beta 1. >> > > CollabNet did not post anything. In an open-source project (mine), on a > hosting site operated by CollabNet, I posted my Windows binaries in a > listing labelled "Development Builds" just as I have been doing from trunk > for months. This is not different than TortoiseSVN, Subclipse or AnkhSVN > which all post nightly builds so people can try our software. I did not > post the source tarball, I posted my build of the Windows binaries and I > will likely continue to do so as the branch progresses towards release. > I made no special announcement about this, just as I have not for any of the > other updates to the binaries I have made in the last several months. After > building beta1 and running the performance benchmarks I simply posted the > binaries for others to try them. I am not even the one that added a link to > these binaries from the Subversion website. > That said, I do encourage Windows users to download the binaries and > continue to provide us feedback. There are no known show-stopper bugs in > beta1, feel free to use at your own discretion.
Hmm. From that link above, it is really hard to determine that it is a developer/prerelease build. I would have expected something like README.PRERELEASE in that directory. That way, if somebody gets such a link, it is obvious what is going on. Looking at that teeny text :-P ... I see the "Development Builds" breadcrumbs. And you can obviously see the user confusion when somebody says "Collabnet disagree as beta1 is listed here". Cheers, -g
