On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:48 PM, Michael Litchard wrote:
There are SEVERAL reasons, but I don't have time to answer correctly. I will let the board to answer, but I will to a summary:
- Because of marketing - Because to give visibility to outside - People that are waiting to build stuff because they won't do it until have a "stable release" - Companies may not move on a propject that doesn't have yet a stable release
- Having two branches requieres time and effort Am I understanding this correctly? Am I to believe that Pharo doesn't have both a development and production branch, or have I misunderstood?
It has... in 1.0, only bugfixes are integrated. There is a 1.1 (already 180 updates) where all the other stuff is done. You can download the last pre-built core image of 1.1 here: http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/25338/PharoCore-1.1-11177-UNSTABLE.z... The idea is to release 1.0 officially as soon as possible... Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.