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From: Martin Holz <holz@fiz-chemie.de>
Subject: Re: [RT] what cocoon is doing wrong
Date: 26 Feb 2003 09:27:58 +0100
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"Carsten Ziegeler" <cziegeler@s-und-n.de> writes:
> I would like to a add one more point: Most of us do not care about
> releasing new versions. We *must* come back to release often - release
> early. But each time, we try to get a new version out, someone comes
> up and says: Wait XYZ is not finished/working/discussed right now,
> we should first get this working. Or even worse, someone starts something
>and leaves it in an uncomple
> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>
> Now, to your points:
> 
> >    | never commit code that depends on non-released stuff |
> >
> I really would agree to this policy, if it is possible to follow. Now, in
> theory that sounds really great and easy, but in practice it's near to
> impossible. Think of the problems for example we had months/years
> ago with severe bugs in Xalan or Xerces. We had to use the latest
> CVS in order to get Cocoon running as the released stuff was not
> working.
> And what does released mean? One could argue that an alpha version
> is a released version ;) 
> I would like to relax the policy a little bit to:
> Never release a stable version that depends on non-released stuff (where
> released version has to be at least stable in API).

If I followed the policy of not relying on non-released stuff,
I would be limited to coconn 2.0.4 :-(. 
While I feel muche more comfortable with release stuff, that't not a 
option for me. I would be very glad to see a 2.1 release soon.

Martin

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