FreeBSD 6.0 and onwards

[Andre Oppermann]

Yuval Levy wrote:
> As a business I need predictability. I love the idea expressed by Scott
> earlier of regular, frequent releases. I'd go one step further: Rather than
> declaring the CURRENT branch STABLE and open a new CURRENT branch, I would
> suggest to let both branches grow indefinitely with STABLE playing catch-up
> on CURRENT. All changes (including major changes such as API) implemented
> incrementally rather than disruptively and with a painless upgrade path from
> one STABLE version to the next as the recommended way of keeping production
> environments alive and secure.

This doesn't work.  You can't change API/ABI incrementally without breaking
applications.

-- 
Andre