Is there a plan for Beta 5? What's the roadmap to GA?

[calloncampbell]

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[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

In #1882 (comment), they said they'd prefer not releasing before they've finished the breaking changes. The task list in #1891 looks only 34% finished, but some of the issues listed there have already been addressed even though they are still open.

[qmfrederik]

I'd really appreciate an interim beta release. Historically, upgrading from one beta to another has been painful because of the breaking changes. Feels like it'd be easier to digest if we can do the upgrade piecemeal, rather than consuming everything at once. It's been over a year since there's been a beta release, and that makes me slightly nervous.

[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

I've been tracking the automatic builds at https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_packaging/dotnet-libraries/nuget/v3/index.json and porting a handful of apps forward perhaps once a week, on a separate version-control branch. There have been many breaking changes and surprises. I'm not going to merge that branch before there is a new release in NuGet Gallery so that it will survive if the dotnet-libraries feed is ever deleted.

[jonsequitur]

@qmfrederik We really appreciate feedback on the interim builds in the feed that @KalleOlaviNiemitalo pointed to. My only word of caution is that adopting those changes doesn't necessarily mean you'll be on a direct incremental path toward the eventual GA API surface. There are wrong turns sometimes. But feedback from people trying it out helps us identify those.

[julealgon]

So @jonsequitur is the answer to the question in the OP "No"? Could this issue be closed?

I have the same question but I'm still confused here.

EDIT: Answering (sort of) my own question here:

• Resetting System.CommandLine #2338