Re: RELENG_5_0 v. HEAD

Perhaps I should choose my words more wisely. The ports system will allow 
you to build it (nvidia-driver) on a recent HEAD, but not on RELENG_5_0. I 
assume that this is because some change was made that increased its 
stability. I had it installed anyway, for a while, but in the end chose 
stability over tuxracer ;-). Maybe now I can have both. I would guess that 
stability and performance have both increased in a number of areas since 5.0 
was released. As a user of an SMP system, that may affect me more than the 
average user, but as the owner of a lowly workstation (as opposed to a 
server), maybe it wouldn't be so noticeable. Of course, it has only been 
about two and a half months, but I get the impression that perhaps it has 
come along way in that short time. I guess my question, if it can be boiled 
down into a single question, is "Is HEAD _usually_ faster and more stable 
than RELENG_5_0?"
Thanks again,
Evan Dower, a recently admitted CS major at the University of Washington who 
would love for some nice FreeBSD developer to take him under their wing and 
gently introduce him to the world of FreeBSD development (instead of being 
an idle spectator)

>From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
>To: Evan Dower <evantd_at_hotmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: RELENG_5_0 v. HEAD
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>On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:42:25AM -0800, Evan Dower wrote:
> > I've been tracking RELENG_5_0 pretty much since it existed, but I am
> > wondering now if it would be better to track -CURRENT via HEAD instead.
> > After all, with the semi-frozen status of HEAD, all knew commits should 
>be
> > fairly conservative and the _general_ _ trend_ should at least be toward 
>a
> > more stable product. I wonder if HEAD is actually a more stable product
> > than RELENG_5_0.
>
>Sometimes is, sometimes isn't.  You have to be fairly careful to
>upgrade at the right time based on commit activity and mailing list
>traffic.
>
> > Certainly it would be for anyone using the nvidia-driver,
> > since it is unsupported on RELENG_5_0. What are your thoughts?
>
>It's just as unsupported on HEAD.
>
>Kris
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