Re: Gnats Status

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 11:02 27.05.2003 +0100, Robert Inder wrote:
> On the Gnats home page at
>
>     http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/
>
> you say apparently contradictory things.
>
> Under "GNATS news", you say...
>
>    December 2, 2002: The second beta release of GNATS 4.0 is available
>    for download....  This version shouldn't be considered ready for
>    production use.
>
> But further down, under "Downloading GNATS", you say...
>
>    The last "official" version is 3.113. If you are creating a new
>    GNATS installation, we recommend you to use the current development
>    version of GNATS 4.
>
> I am creating a new installation, but it is for "production" use
> by a small, "friendly" but distributed user community of around half a
> dozen people.
>
> Which version should I use?

My advice is that you should go with version 4, and I would say that 4.0 
beta 2 is "more ready" for production use than the 3.11x versions ever 
were. In fact, if you look closely in the 3.113 documentation, you will see 
that 3.113 is actually also a beta version.

That's not to say that 4.0 beta 2 doesn't have problems and peculiarities 
of its own, but most of them have workarounds, and I would say 4.0 beta 2 
is the most stable and especially the most powerful GNATS there's ever been.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer