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<font face="Verdana">I agree with Frank. I have been building
against SVN for a long time and have on occasion found some things
that just didn't seem right. These were reported and fixed. Of
course since V 4.*? I can't compile on Windows but from what I
understand this *might be taken care of with V 4.2.* and in which
case I will again start testing Win builds again.<br>
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IMO it just makes sense to test against SVN instead of beta builds
because it does not cost the DEVs precious time to make ready for
a full deployment.<br>
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On 10/09/2011 02:55 PM, Frank Mehnert wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sunday 09 October 2011 11:52:21 Alexey Eromenko wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Since the v4.1.0 release there were no good v4.1.x to date.
v4.1.0 - stable and works for me, but lacks linked clones - lacks a
killer feature, that should be here.
v4.1.2 - has broken GuestControl (in GA) - critical bug.
v4.1.4 - has broken PS/2 mouse - critical bug (+broken RHEL4 GA).
So far - no good v4.1.x release in the end.
Please take care about regressions, and if needed start another community
BETA. As a one-time measure please at least do 4.1.6 public BETA, so I can
ensure nothing got broken since v4.1.0 days.
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I don't agree. I think the 4.1.4 release is a quite usable release
and it is IMO better than the last stable release of the 4.0 branch
(4.0.12).
There is always a probability for regressions, otherwise it wouldn't
be possible to implement enhancements and to fix bugs. The regression
with the RHEL4 kernel is annoying but this bug applies only to a
specific kernel. And I've just tested mouse grabbing with mouse
integration disabled -- this works fine here with a Linux host and
a Linux guest. Maybe this is a problem of the Windows version.
In general it's a very unbalanced view when concluding from these
bugs which might be very annoying for you but don't affect many other
users to a buggy release.
We will do Betas if possible but building a Beta requires additional
time and we cannot request Beta tests for every new release. There
is always a risk for regressions and there will be always a risk. We
try to keep the risk low but we cannot prevent every regression. We
just don't have enough resources.
Kind regards,
Frank
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