@DriesCox,
> Is there a reason wy you install openERP from the sources? Actually there is no good reason not to! Like 80% of real open source, Tiny is low budget, so they are not very rigorous with their release. There have been probably like 4 months between 5.0.6 and 5.0.7 (expected soon) just because they had no time to take care of releasing. Still, 5.0.7 will fix I would say at least 150 bugs compared to 5.0.6. And because some of the bugs of 5.0.6 were regressions it's very likely they impact you in a very bad manner. Would you stick with those bugs? Even if there are regressions, globally the situation is improving a lot, so getting a recent version is very important. Regressions tend to be sparse nowadays and it's very likely 5.0.7 won't even have any regression (unlike passed releases), but that's very recent. Installing from source also makes it so much easy to install a patch. Moreover, installing from source makes it very easy to know what you run and what patched do you eventually backported: "bzr diff" will tell you. Usually, guys using OpenERP for real successfully, grab some source revision, make a ton of tests, then, stick to their version and backport only the bugs that are important for them. Then, once or twice a year, they take a few day to migrate to the head revision (you need a few days to test most of your process against the upgrade as the current test suite is quite weak). Anything more optimistic than that is pure marketing bullshit, you better be warned. Yes i t sucks it's like that; some of us try to improve the situation and it's improving; but it's how it is when some product is passing from plain immaturity to a wider mature market. We are currently discussing with Tiny releasing a minor release every month or two months (it's up to them). When they will do so and after 5.0.7 which will be exceptionally clean, then one could install a release of 5.0.x without necessarily getting it form source. That window might last 2/3 months, after that I'll advise about everybody to jumpstart to 5.2 no matter what. ------------------------ Raphaël Valyi CEO and OpenERP consultant at http://www.akretion.com -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=49241#49241 -------------------- m2f --------------------
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