<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesse Guardiani</b> <<a href="mailto:jesse@wingnet.net">jesse@wingnet.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
><br><br>No, that isn't what we mean at all. We mean that bug fix releases of<br>0.19 come out, and 0.19.5<br>(nonexistant version at this point) is usually more stable than 0.19.<br><br>Currently, you can check out 0.19
from SVN's stable branch, and it's<br>usually more stable than 0.19<br>in the tar.gz on the website. Both of these are referred to in general<br>as "0.19", but it's good if you<br>mention that one is from SVN and one isn't.
<br><br>0.18.1 has a *much* more stable livetv system than 0.19 right now.<br>Hopefully that will change in<br>the near future.<br><br>--<br>Jesse Guardiani<br>Programmer/Sys Admin<br><a href="mailto:jesse@wingnet.net">jesse@wingnet.net
</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Well put, Jesse. I work with a number of large infrastructure products ranging from operating systems thru middleware to e-commerce solutions, and with vendors from small ( <50 ) companies to IBM and Sun. Over the years I have learned to be very hesitant of any release until it's been "in the wild" for a little while. There are usually issues that just don't turn up until you start getting a mix of configurations, uses, software versions, etc. A good vendor usually recognizes these and, so long
<br><br>My #1 Rule of Software: Avoid any "dot oh" release ( ie 1.0, 10.0, etc. )<br> First roll out of a major release is rarely ready. I have personally never seen one.<br><br>My #2 Rule of Software: When possible, avoid any "dot even" release ( ie
1.2, 10.4, etc )<br> A "dot odd" ( 10.1 ) comes after a "dot oh". Then a "dot even" comes out with something "extra", and another "dot odd" will often follow to fix something introduced there.
<br><br>Of course, the Rules of Software ( "avoid dot-even" ) are completely opposite the Rules of Star Trek Movies ( "Even movies don't suck" )...but that is completely out of context here ( unless you're using you MythTV setup to watch them, of course ).
<br><br>I'll continue to watch this list and thread thru the weekend in case anyone has further feedback and suggestions.<br><br>-L<br><br>