Disappointed

[Stephen Clark]

[LoN]Kamikaze wrote:

>Stephen Clark wrote:
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>>[LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
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>>>Alexey Karagodov wrote:
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>>>>hi.
>>>>i think, this unstablity happaning just because developers trying to
>>>>make
>>>>two systems at one time, one is 6.0 and another 7.0 current and they
>>>>supporting old version, lower then 6.0
>>>>i want to ask developers, why you developing new system, 7.0, if you
>>>>don't
>>>>finish old, 6.0 ?!
>>>>finish 6.0, make it work, and upgrade it to 7.0 and to 8.0 and to 9.0
>>>>and so
>>>>on ...
>>>>what so new and revolutionary in 7.0 in comparison with 6.0 ?!
>>>>to use your system i must be a DEVELOPER, but i don't have so much
>>>>time! i
>>>>don't want to develope! i want to use, i want to help you with some
>>>>advise (
>>>>e.g. what feature to add, what feature to change etc), i can and i
>>>>want to
>>>>share some of my hardware to feet your needs, make a mirror, make a test
>>>>server/workstation/notebook/PDA etc. i'm not an freebsd developer.
>>>>i'm just
>>>>admin and a user.
>>>>your system is most greatest i ever seen. another wonderful system is
>>>>SOLARIS.
>>>>but your's is so unstable ...
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>>>All this is described in many places. It all comes down to this: if you
>>>don't want to be a developer, JUST USE THE RELEASE BRANCH. That means
>>>Releng_6_0 for now.
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>>>Stable only means compatible to previous versions of the same branch.
>>>Not that the system is stable.
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>>Who in their right mind would think that "stable" actually means
>>"stable"!!!
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>It does mean that the API is stable.
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>So that you can use a driver written for 6.0 on any 6.x build. And that
>you can run software compiled for 6.0 on all following versions of the
>6.x branch without a compatibility layer.
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Then maybe it should be called api-stable!!