Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:37:21 +0200 From: Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr> To: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why 7.0 is so late ? Message-ID: <20071017143721.GH67677@pcjas.obspm.fr> In-Reply-To: <47161B5D.9050002@pacific.net.sg> References: <20071017133352.GE67677@pcjas.obspm.fr> <47161B5D.9050002@pacific.net.sg>
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Le 17/10/2007 à 22:25:33+0800, Erich Dollansky a écrit > Hi, > > Albert Shih wrote: >> Hi all >> Anyone known why this time the release of 7.0 is so late ? In generaly the >> date on http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html is alway very optimist. >> But this time it's almost 5 mounth (annonced june 2007). > > while companies like Microsoft must publish in time to make the share > holders happy, FreeBSD can afford to wait until the programmers are > convinced that their work is good enough for the public. Yes this thing I known (I'm working with FreeBSD since 4.1). My question is not very clear, what I'm asking is where, in what part of the code of 7.x, are the problems. In the ULE ? in compatibility between ports and gcc 4.2, ZFS, etc... Regards. -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26 Heure local/Local time: Mer 17 oct 2007 16:34:51 CEST
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