ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

[Hans Lambermont]

Julian H. Stacey wrote:

> Stable is a misnomer that harms FreeBSD somewhat.

I agree.

> A promoter of FreeBSD I know has long encouraged people to upgrade
> from release to stable. Some don't & won't realise Stable is Not
> necessarily Stable, & may get burnt.  Much of the world speaks English
> only as a 2nd language.  They won't benefit from the double trouble of
> foreign + weird BSD geek speak:  "Stable isn't Stable ?  Yes or No !"
> "It's stable, but it's OK to crash ?  - I'll go Linux !"
> 
> Imagine a boat labelled Stable: It sinks. The designers claim: "Tough!
> We left the Application Interface  (routes to bars & toilets) stable,
> but changed other stuff.   Hey ! Stable never meant Stable !
> 
> It'd be some work to eradicate the misnomer, but the name's perhaps 
> less entrenched than one might guess, eg:
> 	ftp ftp.freebsd.org
> 	cd /pub/FreeBSD
> 	dir
> 	lrwxr-xr-x   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        19 Mar 24 14:58 FreeBSD-stable -> branches/4.0-stable
> 	cd  FreeBSD-stable
> 	550 No such directory.

Why not rename 'stable' into 'stable-api' ?

-- Hans Lambermont