[Opensource] Future expresso development - support for released stable versions?

[Michael Rimov]

At 01:44 PM 9/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm wondering about an issue that I've had with expresso development - 
>after 4.1 stable is release, will bug fixes be released in following point 
>versions that are fully compatible with the original release? This has 
>been a major concern of mine with 4.02 - many, many bug fixes have made it 
>into the 4.1 version which are not available to users of 4.02 without both 
>upgrading to an unstable version as well as having to go through a painful 
>testing procedure for changes in the platform.

Hi Mike,

Yes, we're working at providing a stable version as per an email that I 
posted earlier.  You will see a 4.1.1 release shortly that does the same, 
as well as 4.1.2, etc as needed.


>This bring up another possibility which I have seen in Scarab (opensource 
>helpdesk). In each new release, they include a sql script which will make 
>the appropriate modifications to the tables and framework data. Any plans 
>of something similar for expresso releases?

Mike N. originally had plans to update DBCreate/DBTool to be able to issue 
ALTER statements, although this has some serious problems with, say, 
Postgres where different databases have different capabilities.  Of course, 
if anybody wants to contribute, all submissions in this area welcome! :)

                                         -Mike