At 10:48 AM -0500 2004-11-08, Yuval Levy wrote: > 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. That's not possible. You can't continually accrete more and more patches on top of one another. Sooner or later, you have to make discontinuous changes. FreeBSD works to make these as smooth and as infrequent as reasonably possible, but they still have to occasionally be made. -- Brad Knowles, <brad_at_stop.mail-abuse.org> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.Received on Mon Nov 08 2004 - 15:33:35 UTC
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