On Mar 11, 2009, at 2:40 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:
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.
I don't think you should. Again, Drizzle is an alpha level product if
I am not mistaken so support existing distros may not make a lot of
sense, because by the time Drizzle is ready for prime-time, GCC 4.2
may already be available. Besides, if you can still distribute binary
packages for various distros that were built with GCC 4.2, I would
really call this small potatoes.
At the end of the day, I dunno how much 4.1 over 4.2 matters, but I
figure I should point this out. Better to look forward than backwards,
particularly when it is so early in the development cycle.
$0.02
Tim S.
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