On 19/09/2015 22:00, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Stefan <luke1...@gmx.de> wrote:
For once this is not a major concern for MaxSVN, since this aims purely for
development/testing and not actual usage as an SVN client in production
environment.
For 1.10 builds there's also an additional note pointing that fact out on
the download page.
Furthermore, the dev builds of 1.10 are all suffixed with -dev-rXXXX.
Honestly, given that the user base is not aiming for "normal" users, I don't
see that much a problem here. It certainly would be a different story, if
MaxSVN was aiming for a different audience.
Sorry, Stefan, but I disagree. You are not in control over where your
client will end up, who will try it, who will find it googling and
just click the download button, ...
It's a difficult dilemma: you want to make it clear that it's some
kind of preview, early-access, ... version of 1.10. But we don't want
any confusion with the actual 1.10.x. If we would have an official
"early access program", with somewhat tested preview-releases blessed
by the project, it would be different (I guess we'd call them
1.10.0-alpha1 or -preview1 or -eap1 or -nightly1 or somesuch).
Just another observation: on trunk we already put "1.10.0-dev (under
development)" as version tag (comes out of 'svn --version' if you
build from trunk). So it's not like we're not doing something like
this already. The real 1.10.0 final release will come after all
1.10.0-dev builds. So on that grounds, there is some precedent for
numbering your versions like this (but we've not been spreading those
builds to a wider audience, setting this version as name of the
download package ...).
So what is your suggesting then? I doubt that adding a "-dev" suffix to
the version number (which is only recorded in the bugtracker and in the
changelog) would actually solve ur underlying concerns, or would it? If
so, I certainly can do that.
But I guess the concern lies deeper here and you don't want any
distribution being made available to a wider audience of those versions
which you haven't released yet. Am I reading that correctly between the
lines? If so, I guess there is no point in further advancing the MaxSVN
idea here, because it would basically mean that it's not adding much to
the already existing distributions.
Regards,
Stefan
