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Re: win32lib v0.57.7

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <jluethje at gmx.de> Jun 12, 2002
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Hello Dan,

you wrote:

> Juergen,

> But isn't this how it's being done now?

I don't know.

> On the RDS site is the latest *official* version of Win32Lib, v 0.55.1,

There is no resource leakage or other known serious bug in the "official"
version?

> and at Derek's site is the latest "bleeding edge" version, 0.57.7,
> for which he asks for help debugging.

And it is planned, that this will become the "official" version, only
without serious bugs like resource leakages?

> Only problem I see with this is that we find the features of 57 so
> interesting we start to use it before it's stable & finished!  :)

If the answers to both questions above is "yes", than I agree with you.

> Dan Moyer

Best regards,
   Juergen



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Juergen Luethje" <jluethje at gmx.de>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 8:03 AM
> Subject: Re: win32lib v0.57.7

<snip>

>> How about maintaining two different versions of Win32Lib:
>> one conservative version ("conservative" in it's best sense),
>> let's say "Win32Lib classic", and one experimental version,
>> let's say "Win32Lib future".
>>
>> "Win32Lib classic" should be as stable and reliable as possible,
>> "Win32Lib future" could be used to experiment with cool new
>> features and new controls.
>> New features will only be taken over from "Win32Lib future" to
>> "Win32Lib classic" after they didn't cause any problem for
>> let's say 3 months.
>>
>> Doing it this way will be more work, but one person could maintain
>> "Win32Lib classic", and someone else could maintain "Win32Lib future".
>> In this case, both should work close together, of course.
>>
>> Just some ideas.
>> Best regards,
>>    Juergen