Beman Dawes wrote:
John Maddock recently complained that "beta's are too short". I agree, since we end up not having time to do more that a few high priority fixes.
FWIW - this another opportunity to plug my proposal that testing of each library be done against the current release branch. (that is the candidate for the next release). I would hope that this diminishes the differences which would be pending between the beta and final version. In effect, testing would be applied to the "beta" on a continuing basis. Anyone who want's to test the "beta" would only have to sync his local system to the release branch. That is a lot of the current beta testing would be built into the library development. I apologize for constantly nagging on this. I just think that opportunities for pointing out the benefits of doing this just keep presenting themselves and I can't restrain myself. Robert Ramey