Guys,
many thanks for the response. It seems to me though, that there is a vicious
circle that the user is locked in. If there are bugs that are resolved in
3.3-STABLE then the 3.4-RC should entail NO new functionality even if this is
supplemental. What I mean is that as a user you, (I feel) would expect to buy
the RELEASE (which must be surely a stable one) and do you work in much the
same fashion as any other product of work (free or commercial).
I feel that the people actually purchasing the CD (and price is not the
preventive factor) should be having what you call the "-STABLE" version of
the OS not the RELEASE. (Beware I am only referring to the CD sales)
In that sense I would recommend some change in the naming (or rather
numbering) convention which in my book should be
3.2-RELEASE -> 3.3-STABLE -> 3.3-RC -> 3.3-RELEASE -> 3.4-STABLE
and NOT
3.2-RELEASE -> 3.2-STABLE -> 3.3-RC -> 3.3-RELEASE -> 3.3-STABLE
Also the bug fixes I suppose that come as a patch to the RELEASE so I do not
have to update from CVS (I know how to but some others may not care about
CVS). So the RELEASE could be upgradable to the next STABLE by applying a
patch (no CVS interaction here). I trust that such patches are indeed existing.
I also trust that it is only the -CURRENT that adds any new functionality to
the OS which at some point merges with what you call "-STABLE" but the major
revision number changes from X.q to Y.0
What are your views?
Theo
>On 1999 Nov 08, Theo PAGTZIS (aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> just a very basic question that would resolve a dispute between colleagues
>.
>>
>> When one talks about Fbsd3.3-STABLE my impression is that such version is a
>> stage before the Fbsd3.3-RELEASE. In other words the -RELEASE is for the
>> final version and the -STABLE is the version that is soon (after some furthe
>r
>> bug settling) to become -RELEASE.
>>
>> Is this the case?
>
>Theo-
>On 1999 Nov 08, Theo PAGTZIS (aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> just a very basic question that would resolve a dispute between colleagues
>.
>>
>> When one talks about Fbsd3.3-STABLE my impression is that such version is a
>> stage before the Fbsd3.3-RELEASE. In other words the -RELEASE is for the
>> final version and the -STABLE is the version that is soon (after some furthe
>r
>> bug settling) to become -RELEASE.
>>
>> Is this the case?
>
>Theo-
>
>It's the other way around. Here is approx how we went from 3.2 to present
>
>3.2-RELEASE -> 3.2-STABLE -> 3.3-RC -> 3.3-RELEASE -> 3.3-STABLE
>
>(where RC is release candidate).
>
>S
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