There are lots of changes going on in CVS HEAD right now, and some people are reporting transient problems with one platform or other. This is to be expected, since CVS HEAD is undergoing rapid change as we start developing the new features for the next release. I thought it would be appropriate if I issued some guidance on which versions you should use, depending on what you’re looking for:
- If you’re looking for an easy life, download the Stable release from the downloads area, which is currently 0.15.0.
- If you want a stable API, but you’d like to pick up the latest bug fixes, use CVS but access the ‘Hastur’ branch, which is the codename for the 0.15 branch. APIs will stay fixed all the way through the 0.15.x releases, and bugfixes will always be applied to this branch first. You access the Hastur branch by using ‘cvs up -Pd -r Hastur’ in ogrenew. You can even do this from a stable snapshot download if you want to upgrade it.
- If you want to live on the edge, use CVS HEAD. Be aware that this may have transient issues, not least because anonymous CVS is only updated every 24 hours, so if we fix a temporary issue it might not appear in your version until up to a day later. This is our development version, so be aware that especially at this stage in the cycle (just after a stable release) the development branch is undergoing heavy modification – use at your own risk.
I hope that’s pretty straight forward, ask in the Forums if not.