On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:28 AM, kenneth gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 16:00 +0100, Tom Evans wrote: >> I can't stand incorrect pedantry - this is my curse. >> >> Kenneth actually said that "1.3 is ancient, you should be using >> trunk", which he corrected to "1.2 is ancient, you should be using >> trunk". His advice, regardless of which version you look at, is to use >> trunk - not the latest stable release. >> >> > > if you are playing around and learning - production is an entirely > separate issue which depends on many factors, a lot of which are beyond > the control of the developer.
If you are learning to juggle, you don't start by practising on the drive to work - there is too much moving around. If you install/run trunk code these things will catch you out: 1) Docs are updated as code is updated. If your checked out trunk is older than that used to generate the docs, then you are trying to learn by reading documentation that is incorrect for your code. 2) If you counteract this by religiously updating your checkout every day before you start coding, then you may repeatedly break your (previously working) code, and you won't know why. 3) Trunk is unstable. Whilst Django has some really thorough devs and test suites, there will be more/different bugs in trunk than in a stable release. None of these things help if you are trying to learn how to use django. Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
