On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you mean that 1.7.1 final is supposed to be the same as > > 1.7.1beta2, except for last minute bug fix? > > At least it shouldn't be drastically different. > > My personal take would be to include the fix for this. If it doesn't > look to scary, that is. > > > Why not name it a release candidate then? > > Because Ant has traditionally never called anything a release > candidate (I think) but always called the release candidates betas. > > We've never had any alpha releases and our betas have tradionally been > way more frozen than what other projects call beta. > > I'm not saying that we can't change 8-) I don't mind, I was just confused by the name. But keeping the name scheme consistent with what has been done before is good. The only annoying thing I see is that Ant and Ivy do not use the same meaning behind the names given to releases: in Ivy the beta we have published are still far from being release candidates, and may changes still have to be introduced before we reach the release candidate cycles. Xavier > > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant http://xhab.blogspot.com/ http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ http://www.xoocode.org/
