Ac stable on our doorstep?

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 09:43:30AM +0200, Krystian Tomczyk wrote:
> Dnia 17-09-2006, nie o godzinie 03:10 +0200, Robert Kurowski napisał(a):
> > 06-09-17, Marcin Król <hawk w limanowa.net> napisał(a):
> > > No. Ac will be release anyway.
> > 
> > Good to hear that.
> > 
> ...
> > > I'd
> > > prefer PLD to be "always in developement" distro, with just two branches
> > > STABLE (main tree on ftp, we guarantee it works) and HEAD (test stuff,
> > > usually not working/finished yet) + snapshots/ISOs from STABLE lets say,
> > > two, three times per year.
> > 
> > So what is other purpose of this iso snaphots than install?
> > Installation disks are made for installs only (there's no upgrade
> > option in installer I guess). Most of people will use net repos for
> > updates.
> > 
> > I agree with your  concept: "always in development", as long as iso
> > snapshots will be released more often than currently stable
> > version(s).
> > 
> +1

Keep in mind that Ac already has obsolete versions of gcc, libstdc++, glibc
and X11. Changing each of them would mean big revolution.

So it's natural to maintain just necessary updates. And maybe some
individual packages which are easy to update without rebuilding half of
a system.
If there is a need for more stable system with newest packages, XGL and
so, it's time to stabilize Th and stop experiments such as gcc snapshots,
development versions of widely used libs/programs (glib, gtk+, python...).
If experiments are wanted - remember nest? It could be resurrected.


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Jakub Bogusz    http://qboosh.cs.net.pl/