Sriram Natarajan wrote:
>
> > Builds are not releases, that's what overcomplicates your example.
>   
> My assumption was that the build number that I had given above as 
> example will turn out to be actual releases (You know - like a quarterly 
> developer release that Nevada releases)

Sun's SXDE builds are not production releases, it's just quarterly
builds off the development train. There are no hard
compatibility/upgrade guarantees[1].

> > At some point the build trains come to an end and there is an actual
> > release (S11, Indiana, whatever). When that release comes out it will
> > only have one Apache 2.x and one PHP version.
>   
> Hmm.. doesn't that void the multiple release flexibility that some folks 
> are asking for .

The production release doesn't die the day it comes out, it has a [very]
long lifetime. What happens when Apache 2.4 comes out? Will it ever be
possible to support it on that release (S11/Indiana/whateveritscalled)?



[1] In all things moderation of course. If a component version has
been integrated a long time already it's quite unlikely we'll bump it
to a very incompatible new version right at the end, for example. But
it'll be case by case. This was discussed in the context of 2007/168.

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Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems

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