Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:54:40 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Steve Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, "Colin Percival" <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release? Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20050418094749.057187f0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <002b01c5442c$d4a1caf0$9b00030a@officescape.net> References: <20050412213328.GC1953@lava.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417185631.05349ee0@localhost> <200504180330.37184.danny@ricin.com> <426310A0.7060906@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417202031.0490ad98@localhost> <4263280B.3010601@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418020749.05761298@localhost> <002b01c5442c$d4a1caf0$9b00030a@officescape.net>
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At 09:39 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: >Nothing stops someone other than the normal RE team from rolling something >release-esque (like a 4.X snapshot) and requesting that it be made available >for download on the FreeBSD sites.... or rolling your own release for >internal use. Perhaps. But then, all of the software that recognizes "official" releases and does things like download ports, etc. won't work. >The RE team is already pretty booked for 5.X releases and, >possibly, the 6.0 release this year. I would really prefer to keep them on >that rather than delaying any of this for a 4.X release. That said a >4.11-20050501 (or thereabouts) snapshot/mini-release would probably keep >most people pretty happy while they move forward to 5.X. How about labeling a snapshot 4.11.5, then? With a rebuild of the ports, etc. that can be accessed online? (One of the big problems with using a snapshot is that there's no corresponding snapshot of the ports and packages online. And software like Colin's "FreeBSD-update" doesn't seem to know what to do with it.) >Lastly... 5.3 has been working brilliantly for me on every system I >installed it on. 5.4 is looking even better. I am finding them both to be slower than 4.x, and am still encountering some quirky hangs and some ports that won't build. YMMV, of course. >Any 4.X snapshot should be >considered a stopgap measure until you have time/resources to move onward to >5.4. I do consider 4.x to be a stopgap measure... but I am worried that 5.4-RELEASE might not have the speed, stability, and compatibility I need for production work and that I could be forced to keep using that stopgap until the next major release. I hope that this is not the case, but 5.4 is already at RC2. --Brett
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