Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:30:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Noob question .... Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1410152027010.81686@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20141016020025.27547cc0.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <543F041D.7030206@hiwaay.net> <20141016013646.34d542e6.freebsd@edvax.de> <543F0863.60205@hiwaay.net> <20141016020025.27547cc0.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:50:59 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> *Aaaaaaaaack* !!!! That clarifies an important misunderstanding for me >> .... I thought STABLE would be more/most stable, maybe a refinement on >> RELEASE .... Thx for the clarification. > > The name -STABLE is to be understood as "more stable than > -CURRENT", because when you check out the development branch, > it _might_ happen that it misbehaves or that it won't even > compile; it can also happen that an experimental feature > in -CURRENT is being removed later on. -STABLE means the ABI is stable. So applications compiled for 9.1 will still run on 9-STABLE, and vice versa. In effect, the -STABLE branch ends up being -RELEASE plus bug fixes and new features, the continued development after a release. Where a -RELEASE is a snapshot in time, -STABLE is the latest version of that branch.
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