On 07/01/2017 04:20 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 at 00:24:59 +0200 > Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote: > >> Le 30/06/2017 à 23:30, Vincent Bentley a écrit : >>> Along time ago, well designed and well behaved software could be >>> recognised by the number of years passed without changes. I worked at >>> one place that was proud of release version birthdays. >> Agreed. That's why I'm always bothered with the fast release pace >> of some essential pieces of software, with the fastest being the GCC and >> the Linux kernel. > Well, this is understandable: both the compiler and the kernel must keep > up with the frantic rollout of new hardware from many vendors. You don't > have to upgrade if you don't need support for the laters pieces of silicon > the industry has churned out the past month. What matters is that older > releases are still maintained and that they work, of course. From time to > time support for a new protocol/filesystem is merged, too.
> This is not the > case of init systems, as they are not supposed to be sensitive to the > particular hardware/filesystem they are running on. I wonder why zap feels > the need of a "regularly updated" init, are there issues in the current > Devuan init that he feels are not being adequately addressed? > I was not aware of the lack of sensitivity for init systems. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
