Kris,
I agree the driver should be like the server in this regard. That means
that some bugfixes will get put into the 7.3 branch. But just like the
server where only a small set of critical but non destabilizing fixes
get back patched the same should apply to the jdbc driver.
--Barry
Kris Jurka wrote:
> On 23 Dec 2002, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
>
>>BTW, I only apply to the HEAD, we have never patched to the current
>>version. Barry and I have talked about it recently, obviously you think
>>this is "abnormal". What are your opinions about it?
>>
>
>
> This means that the driver we ship with 7.3.0 will be exactly the same as
> 7.3.1 and 7.3.2 and so on. The .0 release of the server and the driver
> will generally bring about the discovery of bugs in both. The server bugs
> are fixed and a new release is put out .1, but the driver bugs are only
> fixed in HEAD and our only advice is to run a driver from CVS head. This
> is something our users don't want to do because it requires a cvs checkout
> and running untested code. I think the policy for the driver should match
> that for the server: new features go into HEAD while bug fixes go into
> both the stable and development branches.
>
> Kris Jurka
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