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

[Robin Dunn]

Kevin Ollivier wrote:
> Hi Vadim and all,
> 
> On Aug 6, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>  I think it should be in both. The text does frighten me quite a bit 
>> though
>> as it gives the impression that you have no chance to recompile your
>> program with the next 2.7 version when usually the changes are not that
>> brutal, even in development releases. I'd propose a much more gentle
>> warning but I don't know if it's worth doing it as the majority here 
>> seems
>> to think that it's not enough. IMHO it's a mistake as it risks 
>> frightening
>> people away from 2.7.
> 
> How about this:
> 
> "Releases in the 2.7 series are considered development releases, and as 
> such, each new release may contain significant new features or code 
> changes which have not yet received thorough testing and/or may break 
> ABI or API compatibility with previous releases. Therefore, we recommend 
> that you keep this in mind if you are to base your software on a 2.7 
> release, and thoroughly test the parts of the wx library your 
> application uses."

I would add something to assure the reader that the changes are made in 
order to evolve the library to the next ABI stable release series 
(2.8.x) and that normally efforts are made to preserve compilation 
compatibility, so often moving to a new development release just 
requires a full recompile of the application using wxWidgets.


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Robin Dunn
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