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On Mon February 23 2009, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> April first is coming fast, so the question is: do we release
> something on April first and if so, what?
> I think we definitely should release something, so in my opinion the
> answer to the first question is "yes". The second one isn't so clear.
>
> What is clear, I think, is that it's not going to be something we
> would want to call "5.0.0 release", because I don't think we're going
> to get the API finalisation, debugging and manual writing done before
> then.
>
> What I think we can reach by that time is a "beta" or "preview"
> release where the API has stabilised (feature freeze), but that does
> mean we would need to get a lot of things done before the next release
> (in one-two weeks?) and immediately after. The distinction "beta" and
> "release candidate" would be that for the RC, we would need to have
> the code base better debugged, better examples and better documentation.
>
> All of this is of course just a cheap ploy to release something with
> "5.0" in the version string on April first. An alternative I would
> like could be "5.0-epsilon".
>
> Thoughts? Suggestions?
I'm all for it. Though we need some way to get the wgl code tested fairly
throughly. And I'm not sure most people will bother testing it since you have
to directly ask for it in a config or an api call.
> Evert
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