ANN: Closing AC

Marcin Król hawk at limanowa.net
Sun Dec 11 14:45:22 CET 2005


> It's ok as long, as we make ISO-s from time to time.

That is the part of "always in developement" idea.

> I can't see what's  
> bothering ppl bout dying ac and th. Windows 98 and 95 and ME died as well,  
> other distros also make new versions and move on forward.

For me personally if we will switch to "awlays in developement" distro 
it would be easier to:

1) Maintain my machines, by simply doing poldek --upgrade-dist out of 
stable tree. Occasionally there will be need to do some manual upgrades 
like from postgres 8.0 to 8.1 which requires database dump/restore. Now 
lets assume that we will stay with current distro politics + we will 
release new version every year. So once a year I'll probably have to 
reinstall all the machines because version Z was released and X has 
reached an EOL.

2) Maintain distro itself. Now if there is some security bug it should 
be fixed in Ra, Ac, Th. With "always in developement" we'll 
prepare/commit/test/build fixed packages only once.

M.



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