Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:47:10 -0500 (EST) From: will andrews <andrews@technologist.com> To: thyerm@camtech.net.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: FW: RE: RELEASE timelines Message-ID: <XFMail.991213114710.andrews@technologist.com>
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On 13-Dec-99 Matthew Thyer wrote: > Consider the 2.2 stream that went through many more releases (counting > 2.2.1 -> 2.2.8). Using that yardstick you'd expect 4.0 to stay in > development until 3.7 is released. I know 7 releases of the 2.2 stream > was considerred a few too many but surely we can hold 4.0 back a bit > longer considerring the age of some of the code. You may view this as inconsistent, but the fact is that 3.x's development cycle took far too long (I believe around 2 years). They are trying to shorten this for 4.0. I could name many significant differences between 3.x and 4.x (bdev, signals, cardbus, ata, camified aic, and so on), but my favorite would be the up-to-date compiler. Makes porting certain C++-based programs + libraries a helluva lot easier. Kudos to David O'Brien. ;-) I'm running 4.0-CURRENT on this machine. I would not mind seeing "official" support for 4.0-RELEASE, since I would not be under as much pressure to get novel programs working with an obsolete compiler.. Great way to kick off 2000... release 4.0-RELEASE on my 18th birthday (March 13, 2000). I'd say they'll be pretty close. :-) Besides, in the 2 months I've been subscribed to cvs-all, I've seen >7500 commits (~125/day), 95% of which were against -CURRENT. I'd say it's had plenty of testing. -STABLE is obsolete. You Will Be Assimilated. Resistence is Futile. =|-) -- Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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