Stable or developemnt Version?

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> On zaterdag 19 maart 2011, Stephen Brown wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> Under Mictosoft Vista, does install.sh build the stable version of GNUCash
>> or the developement version.
>> Stephen Grant Brown.
>> 
> Which version will be built depends on which branch you have the install 
> script checkout from subversion.
>
> By default it checks out the 'trunk' branch, which is in principle the 
> development branch, so the development version.
>
> If you wish to build the stable version, you should in principle configure the 
> scripts (via a custom.sh script) to checkout the stable branch instead.
>
> I wrote "in principle" twice, because in the time period shortly after a new 
> major release (like 2.4.0 a couple of months back), the development branch is 
> exclusively used to fix bugs in the new release and is there no separate 
> branch for the stable release just yet.
>
> So at this moment, if you build from trunk, you will get both the stable 
> version and the development version, as they are the same thing.
>
> There was talk of creating a 2.4 branch a few days ago, but so far that hasn't 
> happened yet. Once a 2.4 branch is created, all stable development (meaning 
> bugfixes) continues on that branch, while trunk will be open for unstable 
> development (new features, big changes,...). At that point you will have to 
> modify your custom.sh to choose between the stable or unstable version to 
> build.

Note that once the 2.4 branch is created it will still take a little
effort to make sure the build scripts build from the correct branch.  I
do not believe those changes have been made, yet, to the (now created)
2.4 branch.

> Geert

-derek

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