[wx-dev] [all] 2.7.0 and releases organization in general

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:35:56 +0100 Alex Bligh <alex at alex.org.uk> wrote:

AB> Would you seriously suggest we used a frozen 2.7 in Xara, for instance,
AB> rather than sticking with 2.6?

 No, not for Xara because you use standard 2.6 shared libs. And while I'm
very glad you do and I hope that this is going to be more and more common
with time, right now the vast majority of wx applications link with wx
statically. And for them it may make sense to use 2.7.

AB> "You should thus expect that if your program compiles under one version
AB> of wx 2.7, it may well not compile under a subsequent version of 2.7.
AB> If you want to guarantee your program will always compile and run, then
AB> you may either need to ship it with a particular snapshot of 2.7,
AB> OR perhaps 2.7 is not for you, and you should use 2.6 instead.
AB> 2.7 has also received less testing than 2.6, and many of its
AB> features are newer; if this worries you, then consider using 2.6
AB> instead. We do not encourage 2.7 to be put into distributions. This is
AB> because it is still under active development, and the API between
AB> versions may change. On the other hand, 2.7 contains many features
AB> and indeed bug-fixes that are not present in 2.6."

 This is good but IMO doesn't belong to the release announcement (too
long, too unrelated to the announcement itself). Maybe we should put this
explanation somewhere on the website (if we don't have anything like this
already) and just put "see <URL> for the description of development
release"?

 Regards,
VZ