Case and point: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/2ef8d31b6b05ed0a8934c7a13f6490939a30b24b
:) On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Isaiah Norton <isaiah.nor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Checking out the release branch is fine; the 0.3.1 tag is on that branch. > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:12 PM, John Myles White < > johnmyleswh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think it's more correct to check out tags since there seems to be work >> being done progressively on that branch to keep up with backports. >> >> Not totally sure, though. >> >> -- John >> >> On Sep 25, 2014, at 7:58 PM, David P. Sanders <dpsand...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> El jueves, 25 de septiembre de 2014 19:59:41 UTC-5, John Myles White >> escribió: >>> >>> I just wanted to suggest that almost everyone on this mailing list >>> should be using Julia 0.3, not Julia 0.4. Julia 0.4 changes dramatically >>> from day to day and is probably not safe for most use cases. >>> >>> I'd suggest the following criterion: "are you reading the comment >>> threads for the majority of issues being filed on the Julia GitHub repo?" >>> If the answer is no, you probably should use Julia 0.3. >>> >> >> Thanks for the nice, clear statement, John! >> >> Currently I have been using >> >> git checkout release-0.3 >> >> and compiling from there. >> >> Is this the "correct" thing to do? I notice there is now a v0.3.1 tag. >> >> David. >> >>> >>> -- John >>> >>> >> >