mega New EAP Program open along with new plugin and plans mo

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mega New EAP Program open along with new plugin and plans moving forward with IDE support mega <https blog jetbrains com ktor 2021 02 03 say hello to ktor early access program and new plugin >

christophsturm · Answer

is the eap developed in the master branch

hhariri · Answer

As per the blog post and page it s both main and EAP branches We can have multiple EAPs simultaneously

Oleg Yukhnevich · Answer

< hhariri> Regarding this statement ```In regards to experimental APIs as of version 2 0 0 of Ktor these will be limited to EAP versions We will no longer be shipping APIs marked with the Experimental annotation in release versions ``` Am I understand it right so in future in ktor 2 0 0 there will be no experimental APIs in stable releases So new features will be experimental in EAP and then go or not to release Isn t it will push new features away for a while that are not yet polished as ktor has predicted release dates Im just interested why ktor go in another way comparing to stdlib and other kx libs

christophsturm · Answer

ok after reading the article it was not clear to me what exaclty the relationship between main and eap branches is

christophsturm · Answer

or are there eap branches for things that may never appear in main because they are just experimental

hhariri · Answer

< Oleg Yukhnevich> It won t minimise anything in that sense We just want to make it easier for folks to understand and know where they stand We will be working on new experimental APIs in the EAP and encourage people to use them Based on feedback incorporate or not When it comes to release know that what is in there will be supported

hhariri · Answer

< christophsturm> We will do the necessary merging as needed The point here is that at times we may be ready to start working on something that requires a major or minor version change and have that EAP ready for it and create that branch We just don t want to tie ourselves to having to delay work because of semver if that makes sense But rest assured that everything will always end up available in the release

hhariri · Answer

Btw this is the plan in terms of what we have in mind If we feel that we need to adjust based on how things go and your feedback we will Our goal here is to support and advance Ktor

christophsturm · Answer

ok so main always tracks the next minor version I mean it could be also the other way around and main has all unstable changes and there is a 1 5 x branch

hhariri · Answer

We release off of the main branch So main branch will always contain the stable vNext Whether that is a major a minor or a patch Does that make sense

Ian Arbuckle · Answer

Fantastic to see you guys reach this milestone and looking forward to trying this out