Which version of bzr to use?

[J. Bobby Lopez]

That all made very good sense.  Thanks very much for the awesome feedback!

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Matt Nordhoff
<mnordhoff at mattnordhoff.com>wrote:

> J. Bobby Lopez wrote:
> > I'm using bzr v1.3.1 from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS right now.  I
> > planning on sticking with the latest bzr available in ubuntu
> > for production use, because it gives me a good indication of
> > how stable that version of bzr is, and how backward
> > compatible it might be in the event of an upgrade.  Does
> > anyone see any problems with this, or should I be trying to
> > stick to the latest version of bzr off the website?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
>
> Every version of bzr is as stable and backwards compatible as possible.
> Ubuntu 8.04 includes 1.3.1 because it was the latest release at the
> time, not because it's any better than other releases.
>
> What worries do you have about backwards compatibility? The command line
> UI doesn't get backwards-incompatible changes frequently. If they're
> going to make an incompatible change to bzrlib, there will usually be
> deprecation warnings for a few releases first. When new disk formats are
> added, the old ones are not removed. And anyway, you'll have to deal
> with the exact same issues whether you upgrade now or if you wait until
> the next Ubuntu release.
>
> By using 1.3.1, you're missing out on six months of new features, bug
> fixes and performance improvements. Of course, you're also avoiding six
> months of new bugs and the occasional performance regression. ;-)
>
> Make whichever decision you want to. 1.3.1 is a perfectly good release,
> but so is 1.9, and 1.10 will be too. If 1.3.1 is working well for you,
> so be it, but you may like some of the new changes.
>
> BTW, there's an apt repository for Bazaar at
> <https://launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive<https://launchpad.net/%7Ebzr/+archive>>,
> so keeping up-to-date is not
> difficult.
>
> Hmm...yeah. Did that make sense? :-)
> --
>



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