On 30/01/2008, at 5:29 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>> I think I agree with David on this. Though I'd vote to add a
>> 'Legacy' for the current 4118 build and make a snapshot before the
>> class-path changes for the 'Release'
>>
>> It'd be really nice if the labels for the build actually mean
>> something rather than 'stable' == 'old and untouched', 'nightly'
>> == 'use this one if you want bug fixes and new features'.
> The intent is that this is a relatively short term thing. Once
> this classpath stuff is stable, "stable" turns into this build,
> nightly goes back to being "unstable" and this new thing goes away
> complete. I can't rename the existing locations because people have
> update sites pointing to them and it will only cause MORE
> confusion. The intent here is that if you don't know any better,
> you continue to point to the update site you've been pointing to
> and nothing changes for you (you just top getting updates).
Sure -- but until the next improvement comes along where you'll be
back here again :-)
David's suggestion sounds like a reasonable long-term approach.
But whatever works...
with regards,
--Lachlan Deck
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