Re: [Sbcl-devel] [Sbcl-help] Thinking out loud about SBCL releasepolicy

[Brown, Dr N. <Nig...@qm...>]

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> Of James Y Knight
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2008 10:48
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> Subject: Re: [Sbcl-devel] [Sbcl-help] Thinking out loud about=20
> SBCL releasepolicy
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> On Jan 14, 2008, at 4:40 AM, Attila Lendvai wrote:
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> >> I think the current system works well enough, and does not=20
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> >> fixed.
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> > fwiw, i more or less agree with Juho's mail.
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> Me too. IMO the only way to improve release quality is to add more =20
> automated tests.=20
I commented earlier that designated stable releases may help use in some
production environments but passing a 'sufficient' array of automated
tests would probably be seen as better validation than the stable tag.
Nigel