From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 31 14:41:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBB316A41F for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:41:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ldrada@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0878443D7C for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:41:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ldrada@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o60so271253nfa for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:41:35 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kz2q2yHoFzu6AS9Ms8IPU1q/iQo7ie+RODivMTixfcILxy3CYSq2csyiP7N1Rgfc65KQSDlCaX/gXtdiR/3HzKYoxSU8UOEvOcXsMMztAbBULpPjJUkTbXH1GRcfFBABVs7WMywwPawa3WFlnAWKOlZ27s8faG2SJCU7HfNQuI4= Received: by 10.48.254.13 with SMTP id b13mr446611nfi; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:41:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.108.12 with HTTP; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:41:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5ceb5d550512310641m56d47051xf0913ba1283369ec@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:41:35 +0100 From: "Daniel A." To: Matthew Seaman In-Reply-To: <43B65684.3000106@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <5ceb5d550512302123v691619e2me120853f2e591691@mail.gmail.com> <43B65684.3000106@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Pavel Duda , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help me X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:41:43 -0000 I think it's kinda sad that there is not a standartized way of versioning software, across the whole OSS community. On 12/31/05, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Daniel A. wrote: > > On 12/30/05, Pavel Duda wrote: > > >>In short : > >>release - is something you want for your production system > >>stable - is something you can use too without much worry - it should be > >>"stable" right ? :-) > >>current - is for brave people who like to spend nights to figure out > >>what the hell is going on with their system and fight with all those > >>mysterious kernel panics.. > > > Isn't "stable" supposed to mean that it's "feature-stable", as in > > "We've discontinued implementing new features to this kernel, and are > > fixing bugs"? > > Not in FreeBSD it isn't. You want 'Release' for that. 'Stable' is a > development branch -- for code that has been well tested in the current > branch and which is therefore something that could go into a release > candidate. It's called 'Stable' for historical reasons and because syste= ms > with that tag run stably -- which is a pretty damn impressive achievement > for a code branch that can see extensive modifications to whole subsystem= s > of the kernel. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > Kent, CT11 9PW > > >