Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 00:12:01 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mozilla 1.1 is stable *not* devel. Message-ID: <20020904221201.GC20743@shale.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <3D767EDD.2010207@flyingcroc.net> References: <3D762C1D.4090609@flyingcroc.net> <20020904203332.GA20743@shale.csir.co.za> <3D767337.2090403@flyingcroc.net> <20020904213744.GB20743@shale.csir.co.za> <3D767EDD.2010207@flyingcroc.net>
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Hi,
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 02:45:01PM -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> Clearly, you did not read the manifesto. Every API is frozen for all of
> 1.x. Therefore, no intermediate release (1.0.1, 1.1, 1.2, etc) can
> change anything to do with the frozen API!
To quote from the manifesto:
"* A stable, long-lived branch off of the cvs.mozilla.org trunk
(MOZILLA_1_0_BRANCH). Interested parties should collaborate, with
support from staff@mozilla.org, in developing conservative fixes for
critical bugs in this branch. Anyone who wants a baseline for
development that will work with the public APIs of Mozilla 1.0 is free
to develop against the 1.0 branch."
The roadmap clearly shows the 1.0 branch. The next release on the 1.0
branch is 1.0.1. 1.1 is not on the 1.0 branch. It is from the trunk.
> In the ports tree, the default port follows the *current* source
> release. This is different from -STABLE versus -CURRENT. In the ports
> tree, if we need an old port, we create it without breaking the default
> behavior that ports follow the current source of the vendor.
No. The default port follows the release that the the developer
recommends to users. By convention -devel ports follow the *latest*
source. Ports with version numbers in their names are bad. They mess
up ORIGIN processing and lead to repo bloat. They should only be used
when the ports tree requires a release which is depreciated by the
developer, but still needed by other ports, or ports where the developer
supports mutliple stable releases (e.g. gtk12 and gtk20). The ports
tree already has far too many numbered ports.
Regards,
-Jeremy
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