Support and General Use > Theming and Appearance Customization

iRiver H340, Amabee theme, progress bar not displayed

<< < (2/2)

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: bl999 on October 16, 2016, 11:05:30 AM ---Just curious, under "dev builds" if I click on "For a stable build, download the latest stable release" I get back to the Rockbox 3.13 Download page.  Is 3.13 really the latest stable release or does this page need to be updated?

--- End quote ---

The page is accurate and does not need to be updated, ...per se.

The ambiguity comes from our build classifications. Stable doesn't imply stability (and in fact the release builds are miles from stable on the majority of commonly used targets when compared to mainline git head/development builds), Unstable doesn't imply instability, and nor does Unusable literally mean that you can't use it. "Stable" as the main page outlines is just a classification term that means that the port meets a certain set of criteria (runs well, is supported by the installer, and has a manual).

In terms of actual stability, for any of the targets that actually have a 'stable' release the development build is going to be orders of magnitude more so because it will include several years worth of bug fixes, optimizations, and feature additions. There was a time, long ago, when the release builds actually mattered but that time has long since passed.

I freely admit that we could do a much better job of communicating this to the user base.

The consensus of opinion at this point is, in a nutshell, that anyone using the release builds are quite likely perfectly happy doing so (until they have an issue and are directed to not do so by support personnel such as myself or other volunteers), and those who are already using the development builds don't require this information.

We could, and should, do a better job of communicating that the release builds are for all intents and purposes to be considered deprecated.


[Saint]

gevaerts:

--- Quote from: [Saint] on October 16, 2016, 05:55:56 PM ---Stable doesn't imply stability

--- End quote ---

I just have to disagree here :)

Stable does imply stability, but not in the sense that you're expecting. "stability" can mean "doesn't crash very often", but it can also mean "doesn't change very often", and the latter meaning is the one we use.

We have to admit of course that development has slowed down significantly over the last five years or so, so dev builds don't change that often either...

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page