Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:43:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Mr. K." <bsd@inbox.org> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu>, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: release 3.5? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002011740210.17214-100000@inbox.org> In-Reply-To: <20000201211454.C1678@hades.hell.gr>
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What happens to risky new features, once 4.0 is cut? Are these done in -CURRENT, or is there going to be a different branch for these, or do submitters just have to wait until -CURRENT becomes -STABLE? On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 12:15:01PM -0800, Joseph Scott wrote: > > > > Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > > > > > Will there be more 3.x releases, or is it frozen like 2.x and we move > > > on to 4.x? > > > > > > -=> jm <=- > > > > 3.x will continue until 4.x becomes the -STABLE branch. So there > > will be at least one more release of 3.x, which will be 3.5 ( in May > > according to http://www.freebsdmall.com/software/bsd40malloffer.phtml > > ). > > > > What's happening now is trying to start the move of -STABLE from 3.x > > to 4.x. However it's not something that's designed to be over night. > > The url I listed above gives a short blurb about this. > > It takes some courage and careful, scrutinous reading of the relevant > documentation. I got bitten only recently, and had to reinstall the > base system after booting from a 4.0-CURRENT snapshot's floppies. > > Plus, 4.0 is prone to breaking overnight, after some commit leaves the > sources in a strange state. And if one's not reading the excellent > discussions of the freebsd-current list, he'll probably end up being > bitten more than once by compilation errors, etc. > > I hope that now, after the code freeze announced by Jordan, the sources > of 4.0 will remain relatively, uhm, stable. > > I think that the aim of -current now is to check that the transition > from 3.x to 4.0 will be as painless as possible for everyone. I would > not wish to anyone to reinstall everything, after the same fashion I am > now reconfiguring half of my system. > > Good thing I had kept backups of /usr/home and /usr/home/cvs has a copy > of all the configuration files I had touched :))) > > -- > Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr > PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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