Krhis’s Journal

No more tarballs for me, following papmech this blog is now running Wordpress 2.3-alpha revision 5773 via Subversion (SVN). I have set up a cron job to run every 8 hours to automate the process, so I will always be running the latest development code.

The trunk contains the latest development code, which is currently tagged as 2.3-alpha. The major versions of WordPress (1.5, 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2) that are still maintained by developers and are split into branches.

Trying to run beta (let alone pre-beta) software in a stable environment is never suggested, especially when it changes every 8 hours. From personal experience I can say that living on the bleeding edge has its benefits but they are easily outweighed. This results in a small handful of errors from time to time, or the entire database disappearing altogether.

If absolutely necessary; my fall-back plan is to drop back from /trunk to the stable /branches/2.2 revisions.

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