I know this is going to seem like the most basic question to date. However, I have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get my mind around it. I have searched through the forums, downloads, and FAQ's with little results.
What are the differences in these two products?
SMF 1.0.7
SMF 1.1.rc2
I will assume based on the response the following will be answered... Which one to use?
Sincerely,
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Lainaus käyttäjältä: eldacar - toukokuu 10, 2006, 05:40:19 AP
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Thank you eldacar for the response. The mud is a little clearer... sorta...
I did know and sorta understood this. Again, this could be a community thing rather than a core development thing. In reading through this, it would only make sense to go with the "Gold." However, and this is where I have issues.
It appears in data mining through themes, add-ons, security releases etc... that many are developed and modified to work "ONLY" with say SMF 1.1 RC2. It just appears that there is a lot of effort to explicitly support a Beta Release. Thus this threw me off. It also appears that Joomla (CMS) runs 1.1 RC2.
I have been an Engineer/Developer for over twenty-three years and understand development lifecycles and migration paths. It just appears that the RC in many cases is getting more support / goodies than the general release version.
Case-and-Point: This theme rocks, however, only works with RC?????
http://themes.simplemachines.org/index.php?lemma=5
I might also add a plug for the author. One of the few theme developers who understand or have the know-how to validate.
Bottom-line-observation. Beta releases are getting more attention as far as addons than general releases.
Sorry.... just babbling down here.
Again thanks... going with 1.1 rc2
Well, RC2 isn't a true Beta, it's a release candidate. It is very stable and has only a few minor bugs. With the huge number of new features and improvements it has over 1.0.x, and because it's stable and has been released for over 4 months, most people are happy to use and develop mod and themes for it.