From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 12:24:58 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE74E651 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 786DEC77 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-19-65.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s9GCOuqj006988 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:24:56 -0500 Message-ID: <543FBA8F.6080205@hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:31:11 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: Noob question .... References: <543F041D.7030206@hiwaay.net> <20141016013646.34d542e6.freebsd@edvax.de> <543F0863.60205@hiwaay.net> <20141016020025.27547cc0.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:24:58 -0000 On 10/15/14 21:30, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:50:59 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> *Aaaaaaaaack* !!!! That clarifies an important misunderstanding for me >>> .... I thought STABLE would be more/most stable, maybe a refinement on >>> RELEASE .... Thx for the clarification. >> >> The name -STABLE is to be understood as "more stable than >> -CURRENT", because when you check out the development branch, >> it _might_ happen that it misbehaves or that it won't even >> compile; it can also happen that an experimental feature >> in -CURRENT is being removed later on. > > -STABLE means the ABI is stable. So applications compiled for 9.1 > will still run on 9-STABLE, and vice versa. > > In effect, the -STABLE branch ends up being -RELEASE plus bug fixes > and new features, the continued development after a release. Where a > -RELEASE is a snapshot in time, -STABLE is the latest version of that > branch. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Yes, your link/web-page crystallized everything perfectly .... Thx :-) .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.