=?UTF-8?B?TWFyY2luIEtyw7Ns?= wrote: > > I can't see what's > > bothering ppl bout dying ac and th. Windows 98 and 95 and ME died as well, > > other distros also make new versions and move on forward. > > For me personally if we will switch to "awlays in developement" distro > it would be easier to: > > 1) Maintain my machines, by simply doing poldek --upgrade-dist out of > stable tree. Occasionally there will be need to do some manual upgrades > like from postgres 8.0 to 8.1 which requires database dump/restore. Now
But if you leave one machine not upgraded, after some time it may become not upgradeable. Because of missing triggers, package splits, missing obsoletes, etc. > lets assume that we will stay with current distro politics + we will > release new version every year. So once a year I'll probably have to > reinstall all the machines because version Z was released and X has > reached an EOL. What for machines that are not upgradeable N -> N+1? Eg. because of their configuration and bugs present in year N+1 release. Will rel. N+2 support N -> N+2 upgrade ? Eg. some X11 version (or any other commonly used library) is unusable for them, suggested solution is to use previous version with bugfixes? > 2) Maintain distro itself. Now if there is some security bug it should > be fixed in Ra, Ac, Th. With "always in developement" we'll > prepare/commit/test/build fixed packages only once. Yes, leaving the work for machine admins is simpler. -- ======================================================================= Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (48)(58) 347 14 61 Faculty of Applied Phys. & Math., Gdansk University of Technology _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en