On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:42:36AM +0200, miGlanz wrote: > Ok, few questions about ion3 then :) > - is it much more resource consuming than ion2? (i'm using P200/128MB > right now)
Should be about the same. The dependencies are still the same (lighter, actually, as libltdl is no longer used). There are a few extra modules, but you don't need the load them if you don't need them. > - is it usable for everyday work? (I know it's development version but > it doesn't mean it can't be run at all, does it?) I think the main unstability of Ion has always been the constantly changing configuration files. Of course there has been some segfault causing bugs, but there have never been that many of them. At least not once that have been reported to me :). So in that respect, almost all versions of Ion are rather safe to use. Of course, 20040730 is new and I still use Ion2 myself at home. (Easier to develop without conflicts between the version being developed and the version you're developing in.) As mentioned in the release notes already, I don't think there will be any big changes to Ion3's configuration files anymore, but I don't promise there won't be any changes. > - let's assume I'd like to use ion-3ds-20040730 > - is there some kind of api documentation? (something like ion2's) You can build the API _reference_ by checking out the documentation package from SVN svn co http://tao.uab.es/ion/svn/ion-doc/trunk ion-doc and following the instructions in the README there. The reason why there's no prepackaged documentation is that the actual documentation prose is out of date and will stay so until Ion3 starts closing to a stable release. The API reference, on the other hand, is extracted from the Ion source code so it is easiest kept up to date while doing the coding.) > - when do you expect to release stable version? I don't really know and certainly don't make any promises, but 3-20050207 would be a nice version number for the stable release :). -- Tuomo
