Re: [phpesp-general] Should or can I use the CVS version?

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Danie Roux wrote:

> Is CVS more stable than RC2? Should I use CVS rather
> than RC2?

The code in the CVS tree is the most recent code. At times
this may be very unstable. At the moment the code in CVS is
stable, and is preferred to 1.3 RC2 because of a few bugs
that I have fixed. The main reason CVS is stable now is
that I am preparing to release 1.3, so I am only committing
bug fixes, not new code. However, my first consideration
when I say "stable" is data integrity; in other words data
collected from surveys is correct and will not be
corrupted. In this respect 1.3 RC2 is just as stable as the
code in CVS, however when viewing the results (in phpESP)
the CVS code works better because of bug fixes.

So to sum this up. If you are running 1.3 RC2 you are fine,
you will be able to easily upgrade to 1.3 (final) when I
release it and you do not have to worry about any data
loss. While using 1.3 RC2 you *do* have to worry if you
rely only on phpESP for data analysis.

I would suggest that if you have the ability, you should
use CVS. CVS is a wonderful tool, and will make upgrading
and fixing bugs much easier. For example, if you have 1.3
RC2 from the CVS tree, and I release 1.3 (final) all you
have to do to upgrade is type:
  cvs up -Pd -rREL_1_3
For more information on CVS check out:
  http://www.cvshome.org/
  http://www.gnu.org/manual/cvs/

Take it easy,
-James