What is the difference between 6.x-2.x-dev and 6.x-2.0-alpha5? [#246324]

Comment #1

Crell CreditAttribution: Crell commented 14 April 2008 at 05:46

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Please see: http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs/quickstart

It should explain tags and branches in more detail.

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Comment #2

merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented 14 April 2008 at 05:48

As it clearly says on the release node for all -dev software:

"Nightly development snapshot from CVS branch: HEAD"

On drupal.org, dev releases are repackaged automatically every 12 hours. They say -dev because they're primarily for use in development. You don't really know what you'll get; and in general, we discourage their use, though sometimes you may need to use one here and there.

6.x-2.0-alpha5 means that it's the 5th 'alpha' release of Views 2 for Drupal 6.

In general, software releases go by these keywords:

'alpha' releases are missing features, are probably full of bugs, and are considered higly unstable.
'beta' releases are the releases where all of the features are theoretically in, and we're now looking for bugs.
'rc' or release candidates are the releases where we think we've got all the bugs out, but want a wider audience to help us be sure.

And that leads to uncoded releases, or 'final' releases, which are the ones we intend people to use.

All of that said, if you don't know all of this already, you probably shouldn't be using Views 2 yet.

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Comment #3

CosmicVoyager CreditAttribution: CosmicVoyager commented 14 April 2008 at 19:51

Well, I pretty much did know that already, but now the point has been reinforced, thanks! I've gotten used to some modules being at -dev pretty much permanently, so got complacent.