Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: eCommerce on 5.0

I held off for the 5.0(3?) release since it's not a core package, then there was chaos on HEAD with an acs-kernel update. I personally am back working on my ecommerce project, so I will post it in the next few days.

We've made several procedural changes recently that should allow package developers to work on and release their packages without being blocked by core releases or the state of core HEAD. See the latest instructions on how to do releases. If your package works with 5.0.x, and requires only other packages that also work with 5.0.x, you can release it at any time, regardless of HEAD and of the core release cycle. (One caveat - repository generation isn't automated yet - I need to set up a batch script to do that.)

Yes.  BCMS on the HEAD repository (https://openacs.org/repository/5-1) is at 0.3 but the version of BCSM tagged with openacs-5-0-compat, hence available in the 5.0 repository (https://openacs.org/repository/5-0), is 0.2.  The point of this is to ensure a stable working space, both in core and in the packages.  It is now the responsibility of individual package developers to verify that their packages work with specific versions of core and to tag the accordingly.  The test servers (http://test.openacs.org/test) should make this reasonably straightforward.