It's entirely possible for someone to make a non rolling distribution from
the msys2 repos. You'd set up your own repos and advise people to switch
out our rolling ones for your ones. For it to be appealing you'd probably
want to add some comprehensive tests that all the package versions you have
selected work really well together.
I somewhat like the idea (*) but it's not something I expect msys2 would do
as we're doing it rolling as we consider it the best way, occasional
breakages and all, and don't have the resources to commit to this unrolling
variant.
(*) Somewhat because if a significant number of people switched to it and
away from upstream msys2 then bugs would get found less quickly and msys2
upstream would be less good.
On Feb 24, 2017 4:53 PM, "Daniel Goldman" <dgold...@ehdp.com> wrote:
> Just my two bits. As a user, I would like to have a "tagged release",
> similar to how I run ubuntu LTS server for years before upgrading.
>
> I run msys2 behind a firewall, so the security updates seem not
> important. If my firewall is penetrated, everything on my computer would
> be affected. I'm looking for a "stable, reproducible work environment".
> I would probably not use "rolling releases".
>
> Of course, it would depend on the size of the distributions, but for
> most people, I believe saving disk space is no longer a big concern.
>
> I have not run into any of the incompatibilities or problems that at
> least a few people seem to have reported. Perhaps that is because I have
> not updated anything for several years?
>
> Daniel
>
> On 2/24/2017 3:13 AM, Mario Emmenlauer wrote:
> >
> > Dear Matthew Postiff and Daniel Goldman,
> >
> > This is actually a valuable input that I did not consider before! This
> > would enable you to ensure a fixed environment as required i.e. for build
> > and test systems, or for a shared work environment. While I can see good
> > arguments for rolling releases (security updates etc), I can also see
> > good benefit in tagged releases (stable, reproducible work environment).
> >
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