Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:46:54 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: TM4526@aol.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: difference between releases Message-ID: <20041108154654.GA1662@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <62.4770d826.2ec0eb74@aol.com> References: <62.4770d826.2ec0eb74@aol.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 2004-11-08 10:32, TM4526@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 11/8/04 10:12:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, >jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu writes: >>In a message dated 11/8/04 5:46:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, >>keramida@ceid.upatras.gr writes: >>> Releases are fixed points in time. They are marked on their respective >>> branch of development and that's it. A x.y-RELEASE version is effectively >>> a symbolic name for a specific moment in time. >> >> Wow, thats what a "snapshot" used to be. How discouraging. > >> A release is a snapshot - just one that everything (including most ports, >> although since the release team may not have control over all ports, some >> may fall by the wayside) has been brought up to that point of development >> and generaly checked out at that point. A mere snapshot that is not a >> release is just the current (momentary) development collection without >> necessarily making sure everything is at any particular level. >> >> How discouraging for you not to understand that. > > Its "discouraging", because a "Release" should be " a completed set of > features that have been tested and thought to be bug-free" You know that this isn't exactly true. I have yet to see one "release" of any product that does not have bugs. I probably never will. Get over it already :-P > Thats what a release is for a real product, and perhaps is the reason why so > many people are confused? It's not abnormal for new users to FreeBSD to ask for a clarification of what a RELEASE really is. This is neither a bug of the release process nor a fault of the users themselves. A short explanation of the semantic difference between the words `release', `snapshot', `stable', `current' and the way they're used by the FreeBSD project usually solves any communication problems that might exist. You're not helping the original poster by bitching about what a release really is and why your definition of a release doesn't fit with the FreeBSD project's definition of what `release' means. - Giorgos
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20041108154654.GA1662>