nightly build vs. dev release

Perhaps I read things wrong somewhere, but should I be developing
against the dev release in place of the nightly builds? I was under
the impression that the nightly builds were a little better to develop
against. But it appears that the majority of problems and questions
that I've had lately are due to re-factoring and whatnot.  esp in the
xbl resources. It also seems to be out of whack with your
documentation.  for example your servlet include generator example is
inaccurate while your relaxNG on the same seem to be in line with
current things. I guess I'm mostly curious what the pro and cons are
between the two. It seems I would have more widgets/xbl to play with
in the nightly, but that they are not always going to be there. While
some of the stranger issues like casting exceptions would not be
there.

Perhaps just using the orbeon resources from the nightly builds, and
sticking to dev release pure processing would be best?

thanks,
-jj-


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Jeremiah,

Jeremiah Jahn-4 wrote

Perhaps I read things wrong somewhere, but should I be developing
against the dev release in place of the nightly builds? [...]

It is really up to you; The nightly builds are usually pretty stable, but there are some periods when we do some major changes that might break a few things. We are in one of those periods right now as we are changing the markup we generate. (Don't worry too much, this is an option and by default Orbeon Forms still generate the same old markup.)

If you are not using some of the latest improvements we did or depend on a recent bug fix, you can use a dev build. Otherwise, go with the nightly builds. Upgrade from time to time, and make sure that you have a easy way to "roll back" your update to a newer nightly build in case you get a bad one. And when this happens, post on this list about the problem you notice, to make sure we are aware of the problem, so we can fix it as quickly as possible.

Alex