Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:30:36 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> Cc: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More breakage in -current as a result of header frobbing. Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980221112409.7455C-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> In-Reply-To: <l03130302b114ceb448a4@[208.2.87.4]>
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On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: >>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. > >This would definitely be the WRONG way to go. We need to be making >EXTREMELY HIGH QUALITY releases. I'm with Richard here. While -current is the rage, and it's cool, and SMP, and 4.4lite, and Terry-enriched, it's not everything. I only rode the -current wave in the early 2.x days when I needed linux emulation to work for my stuff. Now -stable is allowing me (usually) to do my thesis work on. And the legacy of grad students I leave behind me at MSU are going to be using 3.0-STABLE to do the same thing, while hackers (in their right) continue to bitch and moan about how hard it is to find a day when 3.5-BLEEDING will compile all the way through. I can still compile every port I need on -STABLE, even though it's done on brown and orange 1970's shag carpet. It works, it's fast, and there's nothing in -OUCH that I particularly need right now. 3.0-STABLE is certainly coming, though I won't hazard a guess when. But a lot of us work just fine in a -STABLE environment, in our plaid pants and polyester vests. (Oh wait...that stuff is coming back into style. :-) Though I do conceed that it would be easier to jump on the current bandwagon if it would compile all the way through just once. :-) I like a stable -STABLE and a virulent -CURRENT, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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