On 12/1/05, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Well, reading the changelog history apparently they call 5.0.15 from
> > Oct.19th "Release", so all previous versions were Beta. I wonder how
> > many MySQL 5.0 users are aware of that...
>
> Er ... hmmmm ... so that means they have happy feature mucking during
> BETA? This is unprofessional. BETA phase without feature freeze ... what
> kind of hobby coders did they hire?
The issue for me, personally, is that it can often be nearly
impossible to know if 5.0.15 is actually a release code, or if it's
beta. In addition, it's nearly impossible to know if 5.0.14 and 5.0.15
are "compatible". I'm still old-school, and believe that .z releases
should *never* introduce new functionality. That's a .y release.
For me, it's just a demonstration of sloppy practices in release
management. Honestly, MySQL just has too damned many releases.
Chris
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