From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 21 10:21:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24408 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 10:21:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24403 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 10:21:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from exit1.i485.net (ts1-cltnc-44.cetlink.net [209.54.58.44]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA29562; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 13:21:34 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More breakage in -current as a result of header frobbing. Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 19:22:01 GMT Message-ID: <34f0277d.678104@mail.cetlink.net> References: <199802210245.NAA06439@cimlogic.com.au> <23061.888029515@time.cdrom.com> <19980221143803.31160@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980221143803.31160@freebie.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAA24404 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 14:38:03 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >Maybe now's an appropriate time to come out with a thing that I've >been meaning to propose for some time: > >Sure, living with -CURRENT means never knowing where your next install >comes from I propose that after 2.2.6 or 2.2.7, whichever comes last, that you just do away with -stable altogether and start making three or four CD SNAPs of -current per year and call it "semi-stable." Just catch the -current tree at a really good time when making those CDs. >From my point of view, the gap between -stable and -current has grown too wide to keep much interest in -stable. PPPD is a good example. The version in -stable is more than two years old. -- The day of the proprietary OS is over. Long live free software. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message