To 6.3 or to 7.0 that is the question?

[Xin LI]

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Steven Hartland wrote:
> With the announcement of 6.3 and with 7.0 looking like it wont be far
> behind I'd interested to hear what people thought of the relative
> benefits of each where?
> 
> I know 7 has had a lot of work done on locking and ULE but are there
> any other reasons to go for that instead of 6.3? Conversely are there
> any reason which would point away from 7 such as stability issues?

7.0 is relatively new, while 6.3 would be a more conservative choice of
release if you have a lot of binaries running on previous release
because there are less changes.  However, I think it's good to use 7.0
as a development platform for future applications as there are a lot of
performance/stability/feature additions that will never be simply MFC'ed
because we try hard to maintain API/ABI stability for -STABLE branches.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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