Thanks Andi and Javen. That helps a lot. I will go ahead and use 3.16 beta 1.
By the way, any probable date decided on 3.16 FINAL release ? Regards, Jeevan On 2017-02-09 22:29 (+0530), "Javen O'Neal" <[email protected]> wrote: > And might as well use 3.16-beta2 since it was just released. > > There were a couple new minor bugs in this beta, but we decided to release > it anyways. Had it been a final release, we would have fixed the bug found > from our regression testing, built another RC, gone through the testing > process again, and released the build two weeks later. It wasn't worth that > effort for a beta, so that's the danger of using a beta. > > As Andi said, if you don't experience any bugs using the beta, use it if > you can. > > On Feb 9, 2017 02:25, "kiwiwings" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > we have this policies here too [in my $dayjob], about not using those evil > > beta releases. > > In my point of view there's not so much difference between a beta and a > > final release. > > Before releasing we crunch through a big corpus of office files and do some > > validations/verifications with our own test projects. > > I guess the difference is more in validating that we haven't introduced > > undocumented api breaks > > and that it works nicely with Tika. > > > > So if a beta works ok for your tests, then use the beta ... if not, please > > open a bugzilla entry! > > > > Best wishes, > > Andi > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: http://apache-poi.1045710.n5. > > nabble.com/3-16-Beta1-vs-3-15-FINAL-tp5726521p5726527.html > > Sent from the POI - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
