[baseten-users] Problems with baseten 1.6.2

[Marko Karppinen]

On 19.5.2009, at 18.08, Jianhua Meng wrote:
> Since I moved to 1.6.2, I have run into a significant problem. Our  
> code base worked fine prior to the move. I'm using the official  
> release from your site, i.e. BaseTen-1.6.2.dmg.  I tried the trunk  
> first and had to abandon the idea due to stability issues.

Hi Jianhua -- I'm sorry about the problems you've run into with  
BaseTen. We've done significant progress since the release of 1.6.2,  
and I urge you, as well as any other developer, to use the trunk while  
developing new code. A simple way to use the latest BaseTen revision  
is to check for the automatically built disk images at http://basetenframework.org/autobuilds/ 
  -- if a build exists for a given revision, it means that that  
revision passed all the unit tests.

Typically, if a trunk revision passes all of our tests, it's the best  
BaseTen version we know. We don't have much of a BaseTen QA/release  
engineering process outside of the unit test suite. As such, if the  
BaseTen trunk passes our tests but fails with your code, it is a  
problem we need to work together to solve. In all likelihood the  
problem won't go away by itself, so reverting back to a previous  
version and waiting the problem out is not a good strategy.

With regards to the other issues you described, enough has changed in  
the code base that we'd rather solve the problems you are having with  
the trunk than debug the specific Assistant and/or BaseTen schema  
issues you encountered with 1.6.2. You'll at least find the dump/load  
problems resolved in the current revision.

Thanks again for your patience with this, and for continuing to use  
BaseTen!

Marko