Robert Pollak wrote: > John Keller wrote: > > Cooker is always in flux but at certain moments, snapshots are made. > > Does this mean there will be no further stabilizing branch after 9.2, to > eventually get a 9.2.1?
9.2 *is* the stabilizing release. It's intended to be the stable sucessor to 9.1. In fact, its goal is to be even more "clean" than 9.1. And, like Radek Vybiral wrote, there are security updates for each stable point release that is supported by Mandrake. I probably just phrased my original reply wrong. Cooker varies in instability because it's where new versions of included apps are tested. But when a release of the distribution ships, it's stable. Cooker has been in a version freeeze for over a week, precisely so that lingering problems due to packaging are fixed before 9.2 is released. > Sure, the situation is a bit different than in normal sw development, > where e.g. Mozilla 1.4 got the chance to mature to 1.4.1 (soon to be > released), while the main line grew into the more unstable 1.5 alpha and > beta. A distribution is much more complicated than any monolithic application, even one as complicated as Mozilla. Each component needs to be stabilized, as well as their interaction. Some applications/tools are more stable than others, and sometimes patches specific to a certain release of a particular distribution exist for just that reason. Then things start all over again. With cooker, it's more of an ebb and flow instead of a start-and-stop process, that's all. The strength of cooker is the ability to be a part of an evolutionary process. It's like Debian unstable, combined with the "odd-numbered release" scheme used by some developers, rolled up with a beta testing process. Each person's mileage may vary, but everyone gets something out of it -- whether it's so you can try new releases without compiling/packaging them yourself, or so that you get a more stable point release. Much better explanations can be found on the Wiki, rather trying to hash it out on the list. Another reference is: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo I hope that helps. - John
