Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Tal Daniel wrote: > >> Excuse me for intervening the discussion, but I still don't get the >> difference between these links: >> [1] http://www.openoffice.org/download/all_beta.html >> [2] http://www.openoffice.org/download/devbuilds.html >> [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/ >> Development+Snapshot+Builds >> >> I'm lost, and others may feel the same. >> > > ... Head to the download page http://www.openoffice.org/download/ (Right > column, Additional Resources, Development builds) to get the builds between > 4.1.0-beta and the coming 4.1.0 final. These are probably the ones you are > interested in. Hebrew will be available after the next run (tomorrow). This > corresponds to item #2 in your list above. > > Item #1 is the beta release, 4.1.0-beta. It is the one we want the general > public to test. But volunteers who have already tested the beta and need to > check specific bugs or features addressed after the beta will probably want > to use #2. > > So we have: [Beta = #1] --> [Snapshots from AOO410 = download page or #2] > --> 4.1.0 > > Item #3 contains snapshots that are built from time to time. They can be > built from the trunk or from a release branch (not every bugfix or feature > we add now will go into 4.1.0: most of them will be used for the version > after 4.1.0, so they go to "trunk" instead of going to the "AOO410 > branch"). They currently contain a snapshot that was taken for the Beta, so > they are not useful at the moment. When we are not near a release, they are > built from trunk and are a good way to test the latest changes.
*Thanks*, Andrea, for the explanation. It cleared things up. I always feel so uncomfortable to mail the list with only a "thanks"; mailing lists should have a LIKE button too :)
