Should we be using nightly?

Troubleshooting SDK
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I know the RC2 update just came out, and I’m guessing it is on the nightly branch (because thats the only branch that has a update). My question is how stable is the nightly branch? Do you use it as your main branch? Little bugs are ok with me, I just want to be able to code and compile 95% of the time.

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Its not on the nightly branch and you’re never supposed to use nightly. As always with a new release you download the new application and install that, it has its own stable update center.

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Normally I’m using a nightly build (not every nightly) and I never had a critical bug that stopped my development. Sometimes I found bugs which I mentioned so the team was able to fix that.

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@normen said:
Its not on the nightly branch and you're never supposed to use nightly. As always with a new release you download the new application and install that, it has its own stable update center.

oooh ok, so I won't lose anything by uninstalling the current one and installing the new one. When the installer wouldn't overwrite the current ide I got confused.
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@maxyme said:
oooh ok, so I won't lose anything by uninstalling the current one and installing the new one. When the installer wouldn't overwrite the current ide I got confused.

Check the blog post, it explains everything.
@ceiphren said:
Normally I'm using a nightly build (not every nightly) and I never had a critical bug that stopped my development. Sometimes I found bugs which I mentioned so the team was able to fix that.

But you might experience issues especially with j3o files and parts of the engine that haven't been updated yet, especially when heavy changes are due. We really do our best to keep you updated with the latest jme3 that we can responsibly recommend for game development in the form of the stables :)
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Using nightly helps finding bugs ^^

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@shirkit said:
Using nightly helps finding bugs ^^


Yes, I think this is the kind of advice you give when you know that the people who are properly able to use the nightly wouldn't have taken your advice anyway.
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@pspeed said:
Yes, I think this is the kind of advice you give when you know that the people who are properly able to use the nightly wouldn't have taken your advice anyway.


Indeed =]