From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 15 02:36:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F353916A467 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 02:36:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D919343D70 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 02:36:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id e30so973943pya for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 19:36:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fNPlAFy/HvP+qKKsAd5dRsic5wozxKHozJlviHIa7rFN+9ZM/P+IyNGAiLNJ79ghWUJeMj5Z82JNawrCZLX3Kxiulp0xqoinkSD4yt2RdlDn/hMZ9reCi86SIXyQ3KfyVS/sVNvjrxfo6D7yOOyqPfGumq6cvY/NIAtd2jy9pIA= Received: by 10.35.36.13 with SMTP id o13mr2139940pyj; Sun, 14 May 2006 19:36:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.29.20 with HTTP; Sun, 14 May 2006 19:36:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0605141936x169f73ddr852f7ba99956b326@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 03:36:01 +0100 From: Chris To: Chris , "Kris Kennaway" , "Kouji Ito" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060512133539.GA77050@owl.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4462FA0B.2090100@cty-net.ne.jp> <20060511150818.GB69548@xor.obsecurity.org> <8a0028260605110826h13211353rbe374ccc5f5e7ce4@mail.gmail.com> <20060511175135.GA71742@xor.obsecurity.org> <3aaaa3a0605120556g78e88afn290f25de3ff129eb@mail.gmail.com> <20060512133539.GA77050@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Cc: Subject: Re: when 5.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 02:36:11 -0000 On 12/05/06, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:56:43PM +0100, Chris wrote: > > On 11/05/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:26:04PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > >> Are maintenance releases of old branches always released in step wit= h new > > >> ones, or is it just coincidence that it's happening this way this ti= me? > > > > > >It was deliberate this time to avoid an extra ports freeze cycle, > > >since that has very high cost and the benefit is really low since the > > >intended audience for 5.5 is small and everyone who can do so will be > > >much better off with the enormous benefits of 6. > > > > > >Kris > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ahh makes sense to me now, since port freezes are annoying. So there > > is no danger of 5.5 been released after 5.4 EOL then? > > Since the 5.4 EOL date has just been extended by several months I would s= ay > that it seems exceedingly unlikely that 5.5 will be released after 5.4 is= EOL. > > > > -- > > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se > yep seen the updated news :) Chris