In the last three weeks, I have updated about 64 packages in BLFS. I started to look ahead. This is where we stand:
LFS 7.0 checked: 64 LFS 6.7 checked: 97 LFS 6.5 checked: 143 There are, in addition, somewhere around 320 packages that have no annotation. That is a total of about 625 packages. Another statistic is that the pdf version of BLFS as 1481 pages. I will continue to update, but I'll probably slow down as what I've already done has a lot of relatively simple packages (and a few not-so-simple ones). What has been obvious for some time is that we cannot produce a BLFS-x.x release. First, there are not enough developers with the time needed to do the necessary work. Second, and probably more important, is that with the number of packages in the book, the change rate is just too great to produce such a book in what could be called a timely manner. I am proposing to send out the following announcement: --------- BLFS is announcing a new release methodology. The book will not be released as 'stable' or 'development', but will be produced in an ongoing release cycle. The book will be entitled "Beyond Linux From Scratch - Version yyyy-mm-dd". New versions of the book are rendered daily, but the version dates are only changed as content is updated. Most package build instructions in the book will be annotated "This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-x.x platform." This will give users an indication about when the package was last updated. In most cases, older instructions will work with little or no modification on more recent versions of packages used in the book. ---------- In addition I can update the web site to reflect this change. There would be no regular pdf or nochunks versions of the book, but a tarball of the current book's html will be available. ---------- The current changelog goes back to August 2008. I propose removing any log entries more than about a year old and save them in a separate file, but not publish them. The current changelog is about 40 pdf pages. ---------- Comments? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
