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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 20:44:50 +0200 (CEST)
From: "A. L. Meyers" <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com>
To: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
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Subject: Re: is "stable" "stable"?
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Lamont Granquist wrote:

>
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote:
> > Having followed the postings here for a few weeks it seems, at
> > least occasionally, that "stable" appears to be a bit less than
> > "stable".
>

(snip)

>
> Why is this so difficult for people to understand?  *ANY* time you are
> checking out the head of a development branch (even one where developers
> are supposedly being "more careful") then you should expect to
> occasionally see problems.  People will break the build.  People will have
> insufficiently tested their code and subsystems will break.  I guarantee
> you that none of the FBSD developers have a sufficient testing matrix to
> *ensure* that the changes which are checked into the top of the tree will
> run on every platform out there (consider for a moment just how big the
> x86 testing matrix is).  I'm pretty damned impressed that -stable works as
> well as it does (kudos for the developers).
>

Errare humanum est. Thanks for the explanations, Lamont.

Greetings,

Lucien


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