Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:41:35 +0100 From: "Daniel A." <ldrada@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Pavel Duda <element@email.cz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help me Message-ID: <5ceb5d550512310641m56d47051xf0913ba1283369ec@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43B65684.3000106@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <d7313d210512301313o4b0b0c1ex1f395570ff819f8f@mail.gmail.com> <dp4cjr$v2b$1@sea.gmane.org> <5ceb5d550512302123v691619e2me120853f2e591691@mail.gmail.com> <43B65684.3000106@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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I think it's kinda sad that there is not a standartized way of versioning software, across the whole OSS community. On 12/31/05, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > Daniel A. wrote: > > On 12/30/05, Pavel Duda <element@email.cz> wrote: > > >>In short : > >>release - is something you want for your production system > >>stable - is something you can use too without much worry - it should be > >>"stable" right ? :-) > >>current - is for brave people who like to spend nights to figure out > >>what the hell is going on with their system and fight with all those > >>mysterious kernel panics.. > > > Isn't "stable" supposed to mean that it's "feature-stable", as in > > "We've discontinued implementing new features to this kernel, and are > > fixing bugs"? > > Not in FreeBSD it isn't. You want 'Release' for that. 'Stable' is a > development branch -- for code that has been well tested in the current > branch and which is therefore something that could go into a release > candidate. It's called 'Stable' for historical reasons and because syste= ms > with that tag run stably -- which is a pretty damn impressive achievement > for a code branch that can see extensive modifications to whole subsystem= s > of the kernel. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > Kent, CT11 9PW > > >
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