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Discussion of general topics related to the new release and its place in the world. Don't discuss new features, report bugs, ask for support, et cetera. Don't use this to spam for other boards or attack those boards!
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by Mark The Daemon » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:03 pm
muse-ic wrote:
dumb question: what's the difference between a release candidate and the final version?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmen ... _candidate " target="_blank
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by muse-ic » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:18 pm
ah - so it's just an 'insurance' term really then, just incase there are minor faults
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by ElbertF » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:38 pm
Or just in case there is a major fault that hasn't been noticed
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by Mark The Daemon » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:44 pm
Strictly speaking a RC is stable enough to make a final release. Its just another precaution to find any faults/bugs in the code
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by Highway of Life » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:46 pm
spambot wrote:
Or just in case there is a major fault that hasn't been noticed
Precisely
That would be once the bug tracker actually reaches: The Big
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by TwistedWeather » Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:30 pm
spambot wrote:
Or just in case there is a major fault that hasn't been noticed
Which i know from first hand expierence can happen. This happend to another unrelated project that i was about to go to when i found a huge bug that had some how slipped by the developers there.
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by Spectral Dragon » Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:45 pm
TwistedWeather wrote:
smithy_dll wrote:
It's not alpha, phpBB isn't doing alpha releases (or tags) for phpBB3.
Sorry about that.
What exactly would this be called then?
Developmental version is the term I most often hear.