Seriously: no. I have way to many new features to add to the site and too little time to worry about testing each time I upgrade.
-- Thadeus On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com>wrote: > On Dec 23, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Branko Vukelić wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> > wrote: > >> Seriously: no. > > > > Seriously: yes. Why? Because it's YOUR work that is going to suffer if > > you don't. Why WOULDN'T you test something you are going to deploy? > > I've just tested dozen frameworks and even PHP before starting a > > project, and I'm a hobbyist. Are you telling me professional > > developers aren't expected to make an informed choice about their > > platform? If that's the case, "professional developers" are people I > > would NEVER trust to do their job right. > > Because I'm not deploying it (the current version, that is). > > For the same reason we don't tell users that they *must* use Python 2.7.1, > and re-test their 2.4-based code for compatibility: it works. > > Not me personally; I use the latest versions of stuff, pretty much. But I > understand the reason for not wanting to, or at least not wanting to have > to. > > > > >> That is, if I'm using a release from six months ago, and all I need is a > point fix, > > > > Then you can dig around the commits and make yourself a patch. At > > least that's what I'd do. > > It's what I'd do too. But it makes web2py less friendly than it could be.
