It's also useful for distributions, as it gives a clear cut on when ABI is broken and bumped, which shouldn't happen often. Remember every ABI incompatible change in a library is days or weeks worth of work for Linux distros.
Also many enterprise users want a stable, released version that they can control and use without any changes, backward-compatible or not. Of course then there are many who are happy to use the latest head of the git tree, and that's great as well. Different uses for different users, but we are in a good spot as we can easily support both. On Wed, 2016-11-02 at 14:26 +0100, Kevin Sapper wrote: > In general czmq and zyre are stable on master. Cutting releases IMO > makes only sense to push API changes, i.e. > draft->stable->deprecated->removed. > > On Mi, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:08 , Wes Young <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 > > > > with the pace czmq and zyre are beginning to move at, unless we start > > cutting releases every few weeks/months we’re probably using this > > methodology for a bit while things evolve and settle.. [which is OK, > > should make it easier to actually cut releases if anything] > > > > it’d be nice to have something more stable to regularly point to, > > but i don’t think we’re there yet.. (i pretty much cut pyzyre to > > work like this when it builds the czmq bindings[1], just updating the > > commits and sha1’s, which is a little more manual, but keeps things > > chugging along). > > > > [1] > > https://github.com/wesyoung/pyzyre/blob/master/buildutils/czmq/fetch.py#L33 > > > >> On Nov 1, 2016, at 7:52 PM, Brian Knox <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> No objections here - been using czmq off various commits off head > >> for over a year anyway > > > > -- > > wes > > wesyoung.me > > > > _______________________________________________ > > zeromq-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
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