On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Sess wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 18:10, Malinka Rellikwodahs <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> my $0.02
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 23:44, Sess <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 01:48, Ciaran McCreesh
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:38:58 +1300 Sess <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > {*} Stable exheres. There aren't any. Most exheres are known
> > > > unstable and marked as such, or otherwise known stable (...for
> > > > most architectures for most distros) and still marked unstable.
> > >
> > > The whole stable / unstable thing's a Gentooism that doesn't
> > > really work. When we reach a point where we consider stability to
> > > be interesting, we'll probably do something completely different.
> >
> > Who doesn't consider stability interesting? I do. (Not as much as,
> > say, Debian developers. But I do.)
> >
>
> I'm pretty sure his point here is that major things are going to be
> broken in Exherbo pretty regularly and therefore most of the exheres
> are still unstable. It is mentioned that exheres-0 is actually an
> unstable api and will be renamed if it ever stablilize leaving
> exheres-0 as the testing api.
I agree with this, and I think that's what Ciaran meant with:
> > > When we reach a point where we consider stability to be
> > > interesting
But, my take on the rest...
> > > The whole stable / unstable thing's a Gentooism that doesn't
> > > really work. ..., we'll probably do something completely
> > > different.
...is that the biggest problem with marking things with the binary
distinction of 'stable' or 'unstable' is that it's too arbitrary.
There's nothing that really marks an obvious transition -- it doesn't
suddenly become bug-free software. Someone just decides "okay, it's
been tested enough". I would hazard a guess that the threshold varies
widely per-architecture, for example. Let alone something like the *BSD
Gentoos.
I'm kind of curious as to what the something-completely-different might
be, but not curious enough to force the discussion if no one's actually
formulated anything. (...since enough else will probably change by the
time it's implemented that it doesn't really matter what the idea is
now.)
--
Best,
Ben
_______________________________________________
Exherbo-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
