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| <h1 style="font-size: 30pt; text-align: center; |
| text-decoration: underline">WARNING</h1> |
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| <p>The code you are about to download is a <i>Release Candidate</i> |
| for Subversion @VERSION@.</p> |
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| <p>A <i>Release Candidate</i> is exactly what it sounds like: a |
| distribution of Subversion that may become an official release later, |
| <i>if and only if</i> it passes preliminary testing by those members |
| of the community who are interested in testing it.</p> |
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| <!-- , which means it is considered <strong |
| style="text-decoration: underline">UNRELEASED</strong> code. The |
| term 'release candidate' means the code works to the best knowledge |
| of the Subversion developers, but that it still requires testing by a |
| larger number of people to root out bugs.</p> --> |
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| <p>As such, if you are interested in helping us test this Release |
| Candidate, you're very welcome to download and test these packages. |
| If you are looking for a copy of Subversion for production use, this |
| is <i>not it</i>; you should instead grab the latest stable release |
| from the <a |
| href="http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html">Download |
| area</a>.</p> |
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| <h2 style="font-size: 18pt">Note to operating system distro package |
| maintainers</h2> |
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| <p>As stated above, this is <i>not</i> an official, end-user release |
| of Subversion. It is a distribution intended for testing only. Please |
| do <i>not</i> package this distribution in any way. It should not be |
| made available to users who rely on their operating system distro's |
| packages.</p> |
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| <h2 style="font-size: 14pt">Why shouldn't I set up/make available a |
| Release Candidate for production use?</h2> |
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| <p style="font-size: 11pt">(Taken from a <a |
| href="http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-11/1295.shtml" |
| >mail by Karl Fogel</a> on the subject)</p> |
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| <p style="font-size: 11pt">Subversion release candidates are for |
| testing only. We might have to withdraw one to fix bugs, and fixing |
| those bugs might involve changing APIs, or changing a soft-upgrade |
| strategy in the repository or working copy formats. If some production |
| users had begun depending on the new API, or had unknowingly |
| soft-upgraded their repository or working copy, then they'd be in for |
| a very unpleasant suprise when the real release comes out and doesn't |
| have the same API anymore, or doesn't use the same formats. Not only |
| would Subversion suddenly "stop working" for them, but there wouldn't |
| be any convenient path to get it working again, since no blessed |
| Subversion release would have the code needed to interpret their |
| legacy data.</p> |
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| <p style="font-size: 11pt">We encourage RC testing by users who know |
| how to install from a tarball independently of their OS's packaging |
| system. Users who install only packaged releases, however, should wait |
| for and use only officially released Subversions. Anything else is |
| playing with fire. When the inevitable blowup happens, both your |
| reputation as a packager and Subversion's reputation will suffer -- |
| but only one will deserve it.</p> |
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| <p>If you want to help us test this distribution of Subversion, you |
| can find the files <a href="@DIRNAME@/">here</a>.</p> |
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