[josm-dev] JOSM and stable version

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Tue Aug 19 22:37:49 BST 2008


Hi,

>>> The first one is a hand edited link pointing to one of the older
>>> snapshots. This link should be changed from time to time (e.g. weekly) in
>>> case newer versions are stable as well. When new features are introduced,
>>> the time until a new version is more or less stable will be somewhat
>>> higher. Currently it is 802, i.e. before virtual stuff was introduced.

>> How about adding a symlink to the download directory called
>> "josm-testing" (to adopt the Debian way of having "unstable",
>> "testing" and "stable") or so?  The link in the wiki could point to
>> that.

> I can't do that. Frederik?

I can, but is "testing" really what we want? Assume that > 50% of JOSM 
users are not familiar with Debian terminology - is the kind of 
"semi-stable" JOSM that you had in mind really a "testing" version?

Bye
Frederik

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