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Another call for an RC3 installer
Grom:
To stop all discussions you have to make installer for nightly builds every week and put it to the page. Community have no rights to do that on your web page.
MortenMacFly:
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Although I understand Russian I'd be glad if you remove the bottom line of your sig. This is an English-only forum and non-Russian speaker might think you talk bad about them.
With regards, Morten.
orefa:
Commercial products have explicit deadlines and features so a version 1.0 (or 2.3 or whatever) with such features targetted for such release date is needed in this context. But this traditional #.# versioning approach seems ill-suited for the dynamics of volunteer development of an open source project. People who simply enjoy doing something for free are not obligated to anyone in any way. There is no deadlines and none should exist. There is no limit on features to implement and none should exist either. Of course these volunteers could decide for themselves that they will adopt the discipline of a commercial group, but where is the fun in that?
Clearly the RC2 date and the expectation of a 1.0 version causes frustrations for users. At times, developpers get splashed by a sample of this (like now). To fix this once and for all I advocate dropping the common 1.0 system and adopting a date version. The #.#.# format is somewhat useful and expected so I also advocate using a year.month.day approach where 6.11.25 would be today's version. Whenever a version is stable enough, or when developpers have time, or when they feel like it, the main web page can be updated with it. Bandwidth usage should not be affected except due to growth in popularity.
Under this approach, older versions could also be posted on the download page, possibly with comments regarding known bugs or shortcomings of each posted version. Then visitors can decide for themselves if they prefer to use the latest version or a slightly older one. Of course, multiple versions would probably increase bandwidth costs as many users might download multiple versions to see which they prefer. But mirror sites can help with that and volunteer hosts would likely be found more easily as popularity increases (and I'm sure it would).
mandrav:
Everybody be patient. We 're nearing the feature freeze so all these discussions are pretty much pointless.
It's nice that everybody is sharing his views on things but many times things are not as easy as they may seem to be. Anybody who thinks that all it takes to make a release is to slap a version number on a setup file is plain wrong and obviously has never been involved as a developer in a large project like this.
Trust me, it takes much more than that to make a release :).
dje:
Thanks to all for make me feel so intelligent !!! :D
I am a daily user of the nightly builds.
The first time is a little bit more complicated than other but after, download, drag and drop through 7zip and it works ! 8)
I finally love this way of project management because you can always be up to date instead of waiting for months (years ??) for new releases.
Dje
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