Re: When will pyrus be released?

Thank you Brett, On Jul 28, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Brett Bieber wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Chen Xiongjie <chen.xcmail@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm thinking to use pyrus for internal package. But I saw pyrus is still in alpha4, >> so I wonder when will the formal version be released. > > Excellent question! Days, months, years? Who knows. > > I've been using it as my command line installer for over a year. Using > the internal APIs may be a bit more risky, but since everything is > versioned I don't see any major problems. You're using version control > and can revert to a previous version, right? And you have complete > test coverage so you can tell if something breaks after upgrading > right? It's nice to live in my imaginary dream world. :-) > I have to say the architecture is much clearer and I also trust the quality.:) Just a concern from non-technical perspective, since it's alpha - meaning there might be feature change. But I will stay following the github repo change :). -- Cheers Chen > Honestly, we need more people to use Pyrus and make sure it's ready to > become stable. Using it in the alpha state is not an issue I concern > myself with — upgrading is where I get a bit nervous, but because I'm > following the development, and Pyrus currently has about 80% test > coverage, I'm not worried too much. > > Github has everything you need to work with pyrus — > https://github.com/pyrus > > For information on getting a development environment up and running > you can read this helpful doc and be up and running in minutes. > > https://github.com/pyrus/pyrus-docs/wiki/Developing-for-Pyrus > > Hope that helps! > > -- > Brett Bieber --- Chen Xiongjie email: chen.xcmail@gmail.com | xc@ez.no skype: xiongjie.chen twitter: http://twitter.com/xiongjie