Thanks for the detailed information, this is much clearer. I look
forward to 5.0.x becoming release.
Kind regards,
Ben Clewett.
Joerg Bruehe wrote:
Hi Ben, all!
Ben Clewett wrote ((re-ordered into posting sequence)):
Joerg Bruehe wrote:
Hi Ben!
Ben Clewett wrote:
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Approximately when will 5.0.1 be available as stable release?
5.0.1 will never change, it is out (and obsolete by now).
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I am trying to work out how stable 5.0.x is. Related to why MySQL
advise people to wait for the 'release' status.
5.0.9-beta (the current published version) still has some bugs which a
"production release" should not have, and we also want to give the 5.0
release series still more test coverage.
You say 5.0.1 is old and obsolete. Yet is not at release stage yet.
This is curious.
5.0.1 was the first "alpha" version of the 5.0 release series. It became
obsolete when 5.0.2-alpha was published, 2004-Dec-02.
Will 5.0.1 be changed before release? For example: Will large errors
(eg, server crash) be retrospectively fixed in 5.0.1 if found in this
release?
Errors have been fixed (and will still be fixed), but with new version
numbers. Any version number is associated with a certain source code,
published as a "tar.gz" file.
Whenever anything is changed, be it security fix or feature, the
published result is a new code version which gets a new version number.
The way I thought of it was: New features would demand a new release.
Major new features will enter into a new release series. Depending on
the feature complexity, they must be completed when that series is in
the "alpha" or "beta" stage.
Critical bug fixes would be made in *all* live versions. Otherwise
why have multiple versions at different stages?
Correct if by "version" you mean the release series, like 4.0, 4.1, or
5.0. But within that series, the new version gets a higher number like
4.0.25 or 4.1.13. If not yet recommended for production purposes, it
gets the label also, like 5.0.9-beta.
For more details, check
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/choosing-version.html
But if no changes are going to occur, why is it not 'release' now?
Sorry for my confusion,
I hope I got it solved.
Joerg
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