=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= wrote:
> Jamie Bowden schrieb:
> > On 9/9/06, Mark Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> > Yeah, -STABLE is what you should run if you want stable code, right?
> >> No. STABLE means STABLE API.
> >> If you want stable code you run releases. Between releases
> >> stable can become unstable. Think of stable as permanent
> >> BETA code. Changes have passed the first level of testing
> >> in current which is permanent ALPHA code.
> > No, this is what it means now. [...]
> Why do you say "No" if you mean "Yes, but in former times ..."?
Stable is a misnomer that harms FreeBSD somewhat. A promoter of
FreeBSD I know has long encouraged people to upgrade from release
to stable. Some don't & won't realise Stable is Not necessarily
Stable, & may get burnt. Much of the world speaks English only as
a 2nd language. They won't benefit from the double trouble of
foreign + weird BSD geek speak: "Stable isn't Stable ? Yes or No !"
"It's stable, but it's OK to crash ? - I'll go Linux !"
Imagine a boat labelled Stable: It sinks. The designers claim:
"Tough! We left the Application Interface (routes to bars & toilets)
stable, but changed other stuff. Hey ! Stable never meant Stable !
It'd be some work to eradicate the misnomer, but the name's perhaps
less entrenched than one might guess, eg:
ftp ftp.freebsd.org
cd /pub/FreeBSD
dir
lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftpuser ftpusers 19 Mar 24 14:58 FreeBSD-stable
-> branches/4.0-stable
cd FreeBSD-stable
550 No such directory.
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