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Date:      Fri, 3 Nov 2006 06:34:51 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libpthread shared library version number
Message-ID:  <20061103063336.A14555@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061103055522.GA54952@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
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On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, John Hay wrote:

> You can also track it in a file or with forced commits, with very little if 
> any additional effort.
>
> I thought one of the ideas of -current was that it serves as a testing 
> ground for new code. It seems we currently limit that testing to the box in 
> the corner that you just recompile and reboot and then say "FreeBSD can 
> still compile itself and reboot". You limit the amount of testing you get 
> out of current this way though.

Dunno about you, but I run FreeBSD on my notebook and desktops. :-)  Doing 
anything else, as you point out, will result in inadequate testing.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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