AW: Is there a technical difference between a RC and stable release?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Mark,
thank you for your helpful and clarifying explanation!
Tiemo

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Betreff: Re: Is there a technical difference between a RC and stable
release?

Hi Tiemo,

On 2017-04-05 08:25, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode wrote:
> What I actually don't know, is there any "technical" difference behind 
> the scenes between a RC and a stable release? Is a RC just an approval 
> state for any feedback from us and could go 1:1 into a stable release, 
> if there are no serious new bugs? In other words, if I test my app 
> with a RC and don't see any bugs, which affect my app, would it be the 
> same for me to use a RC for an indy production, as a stable release or 
> is there any technical difference behind the scenes or reason for not 
> to use a RC?

A stable release is 'just' a renaming of the last RC of any sequence of
releases for a given version - however, an RC might contain a regression
(introduced in the RC) in which case there will be another RC either fixing
the regression or reverting the patch which caused the regression.

In maintenance releases we try quite hard to minimize the impact of any
change which is made, so the general risk of regressions during an RC cycle
should be quite low.

So, in general, if a build of your app with an RC goes through your usual
testing procedures fine; then there should be no harm in using it in a
production release.

Indeed, people using RCs in production is actually very helpful for us as it
increases general test coverage, increasing the chance of finding any
regressions (which actually affect production code) in it.

Hope this helps,

Mark.

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Mark Waddingham ~ mark at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can create apps

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