[Zope] Re: Zope 2.6.2 Beta 4 Released

[Andreas Jung]

--On Samstag, 19. Juli 2003 12:42 Uhr +0200 Josef Meile 
<jmeile@hotmail.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Jung" <andreas@andreas-jung.com>
> To: "Josef Meile" <josef.meile@imes.mavt.ethz.ch>; <zope@zope.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 11:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Re: Zope 2.6.2 Beta 4 Released
>
>
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>> --On Samstag, 19. Juli 2003 11:59 Uhr +0200 Josef Meile
>> <josef.meile@imes.mavt.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry if this is an obvious question, but why is
>> > there another Beta version of Zope 2.6.2 released,
>> > when there is already a 2.7.0 alpha release?
>> >
>>
>> What do you mean with your question? Both releases
>> are completely unrelated.
> Yes, I know that the difference it's the installation process.
>
> I ask because as I understand, a supperior release it's supposed
> to fix bugs on previous releases, but on this case, 2.7.0a1 doesn't
> have the bug fixes included in 2.6.2b4, so you can't install the
> latest release on a production server. So, why isn't a next version
> of 2.7.0 released instead of one of 2.6.2? Won't be the installation
> process introduced in 2.7.0a1 (separation of zope binaries from
> configuration files and products) the standard for next releases?
>

I don't get your point. Both releases have nothing in common in terms
of release scheduling. Check the Zope 2.7 wiki on dev.zope.org
for the new features in 2.7.  Zope 2.6 is in the maintenance phase. That
means 2.6.X will contain mostly bugfixes but no new features. Btw.
bugfixes are usually applied to the current development branch (which is
actually Zope 2.7) *and* on the the maintenance branch. Btw. you should 
read doc/CHANGES.txt
for details.

-aj