Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:23:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a perceived need for a 2.1.8 release? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970418164113.4347V-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <17971.861382575@time.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > The -stable branch seems to be ticking along still, something which I > think is *good* since many customers of 2.1.7 still need a place to go > for the critical bug fixes and -stable is a fine place to get them > from, but I'm wondering if Yet Another Release along that branch (and > I'm going to wise up and stop referring to anything on this branch as > "the last release" :-) would be merited. > > This release would _not_ be done on CD since Walnut Creek CDROM is > starting to accumulate too many FreeBSD CD products (yes, there are > more coming out soon with things like CDE and AcceleratedX 3.1 on > them) and I think they want to focus on 3-4 main titles. There are > also the subscription customers to think of who probably don't want to > start getting 2 CDs every 4 months. > > Anyway, given that proviso, what do those who are still running 2.1.x > think of this? > > Jordan > I don't think so. Anyone running 2.1.x systems, will probably just do a "make world" upgrade rather than installing 2.1.8 over there existing system. Besides having less downtime, there will probably be further patches to 2.1-stable still :) Tom
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