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Sun, 21 August 2011 21:11

dolik.rce
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The stable releases should contain well tested code and come out once every one or two months, when the developers feel that all the new features since last release are working without any major bugs.

The nightly builds on the other hand are published every night, so they contain all the fresh changes. Of course with all their bugs, but it also works the other way around - the bug fixes are never backported to the stable releases (it would be too much work), so the nightly builds are the "most fixed" version Smile

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U++ is kind of a rolling release project (many people is even using the fresh SVN sources), but in general the code tends to be pretty stable. I remember very few occasions when a serious bug got into the repository and most of the times the fix came in less than two days.

The final decision is up to you, but I would generally recommend you to use nightly builds. The only two cases when I personally would recommend using stable releases are when working in corporate environment within a big team of programmers or when having limited internet connection.

Honza

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