Brian Moon wrote: >> I don't know enough about the Gentoo stable/unstable releases/policy. >> How often does Gentoo release? Should we care about the current gentoo >> stable? (that's an actual question - not a troll) > > The release cycle for Gentoo is package based. Each package has a > maintainer and based on feedback from the community, a packages is > deemed stable for an architecture when that maintainer deems it so. Some > maintainers are better than others. The core things like glibc, the > kernel and gcc are well maintained. It looks to me from the changelogs > for gcc that there has not been a lot of testing of gcc > 4.1 on Gentoo > so therefore it has not been deemed stable. (Call that poor QC if you > want, I kind of like it.)
Interesting. Well... it seems that Gentoo isn't the only one - RHEL5/CentOS5 seems to still be on 4.1... so I'm going to have to back down from my attempt to move us up to 4.2 across the board. Sigh. Thanks for the feedback guys! Very helpful! Monty _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
