On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:05:58PM +0200, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Stefan Sperling wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 01:21:40PM -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> [...]
> > After reading everything which has accumulated over night
> > in this thread (from the point of view of my timezone), I get the
> > impression that the following are the options being discussed:
> >
> > 1). Let Mark, Senthil and whoever wants to join their effort
> > create a feature-branch based on 1.5.x.
> [...]
> > To prevent version confusion among our users, vendors are
> > asked to ship binaries compiled from this branch to the general
> > public only if they are explicitly designated as not being based
> > on the official Subversion-1.5.x code, because they contain
> > features not present in stock 1.5.x.
>
> Looking at the experience that people ("user") are not able to
> distinguish between CVS, CVSNT and WinCVS, I doubt people will be able
> to actually distinguish between an "official" and such an "inofficial"
> one.
I think that depends entirely on the way the modified version
is presented.
To exagerate slightly, would anyone downloading something from
a website with a click-through banner as shown below believe
they are downloading the original Subversion-1.5?
YOU ARE ABOUT TO DOWNLOAD SUBVERSION-<VENDOR>-EDITION,
WHICH IS BASED ON SUBVERSION-1.5 BUT IS _NOT_ THE ORIGINAL
SUBVERSION-1.5!
THESE BINARIES HAVE NOT BEEN COMPILED FROM THE OFFICIAL
SUBVERSION 1.5 RELEASE SOURCE CODE!
PLEASE ASK US, <VENDOR>, FOR HELP IF THERE ARE ANY PROBLEMS.
IF YOU WOULD RATHER GET THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF SUBVERSION-1.5,
PLEASE GO TO http://subversion.tigris.org/getting.html
[ Yes, I want to download the <vendor> edition. ]
[ No thanks, take me to the original version's download site. ]
Wow, these caps scream at me in terror from the screen now.
I don't think anyone would be confused, unless they can't
read the text for some reason.
Now, I don't really expect to see that exact banner on anyone's website.
Given that "merge tracking preview" releases have been distributed
in the past without causing confusion, it seems the folks at CollabNet
already know how to handle this properly.
Stefan
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Received on 2008-08-08 15:59:14 CEST