Re: Fwd: 8.0 vs. 7.4 benchmarks

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:43:03 -0800,
>   "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
>>IMHO 8.0 means, hey all you external developers -- time to test
>>with your applications and report bugs.
>>
>>8.1 means, alright we got some wide reports -- fixed a few mistakes
>>and now were ready.
>
>
> That should probably be 8.0.1. That is what the next release will be named.

Your right that was my bad.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


> We did have a thread about *.* releases about a month ago and the data seemed
> to suggest that the *.* releases tended to be better than the latest version
> of the previous *.* release. (I think the main problem is that some fixes
> were not being back ported because they are too extensive to be safely
> back ported.) So with 8.0, it might be a good idea to hold off for a little
> bit to see if anything major was missed during beta, but that it might be
> desirable to upgrade to 8.0 without waiting for 8.0.1 if there aren't any
> major problems reported within a few weeks of the release.



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