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Date:      17 Nov 2002 13:26:02 -0800
From:      swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
Cc:        "Lefteris Tsintjelis" <lefty@ene.asda.gr>, "Peter Hoskin" <peterh@ripewithdecay.com>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, "Hununu" <hununu@netcabo.pt>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?
Message-ID:  <af4rafevmd.raf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <006601c28ddf$604010f0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable>
References:  <20021117115616.T301-100000@extortion.peterh.dropbear.id.au> <3DD6EEA0.AD524CA2@ene.asda.gr> <006601c28ddf$604010f0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable>

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"Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> writes:

> It depends on your point of view.  -CURRENT is noted as occasionally
> being broken to the point that it won't even build.

Which is also true of -STABLE, except for the "is noted" part.  Besides
unavoidable ordinary screwups, not yet caught and fixt, it can also be
for the avoidable reason that the cvs/cvsup mechanism doesn't allow for
"atomic" changes to the repository (or maybe it's just not used).  As
a work-around, someone has suggested running "cvsup" repeatedly until
changes stop happening (over the course of a few minutes, I suppose).

I agree with the guy who said we should call these releases (not to be
confused with "RELEASE"s) by better names.  But he needn't have worried
about not changing names in CVS because they already have other names
there; eg, -CURRENT is "HEAD".  (IIRC, there's already third name for
essentially the same thing, but I've forgotten what it is and it's
probably no better than CURRENT, HEAD, STABLE, or worse, names like
RELEASE_4 which is either not a release or is hundreds of releases
so that either the first part or last part of the name is confusing.

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