From: Oliver Schneider <musl-mailinglist@f-prot.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl 1.0.x branch
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:46:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5399F572.7070902@f-prot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140611131638.GS179@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Hi Rich,
On 2014-06-11 13:16, Rich Felker wrote:
> For reference (I'm not sure this is published anywhere; it probably
> should be) "stable" here means "no unnecessary changes that risk
> disturbing an existing working deployment". It's not a matter of how
> reliable or bug-free the release is.
Well that's clear. Since we cannot reliably know how many defects exist
in a software project.
> My intended audience for stable is users who have fairly constant sets
> of packages built against musl and who don't want to deal with changes
> that might affect their build procedures, nonstandard or undocumented
> behaviors their programs might be relying on, etc. The release series
> from master (currently 1.1.x) on the other hand is probably a better
> choice if you're expanding your set of software built against musl,
> aiming to support a widening range of kernel versions, etc.
Indeed. Then I should probably switch to the newer release series.
Perhaps this is worth pointing out? Is there a Wiki in which one can get
edit rights so as to write these things down for future users?
With best regards,
// Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-12 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-06 17:56 Rich Felker
2014-06-06 19:39 ` u-igbb
2014-06-07 6:23 ` Kevin Bortis
2014-06-07 13:16 ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-06-07 18:26 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2014-06-09 9:23 ` Natanael Copa
2014-06-09 20:08 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-10 9:43 ` u-igbb
2014-06-10 16:03 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-10 16:50 ` Laurent Bercot
2014-06-10 17:37 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-10 19:19 ` Laurent Bercot
2014-06-10 21:01 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-11 1:27 ` Laurent Bercot
2014-06-10 20:32 ` u-igbb
2014-06-10 21:51 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-11 10:24 ` u-igbb
2014-06-11 13:09 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-11 14:37 ` u-igbb
2014-06-10 21:25 ` Natanael Copa
2014-06-10 21:13 ` musl 1.0.x branch -- OT u-igbb
2014-06-10 21:55 ` musl 1.0.x branch Rich Felker
2014-06-11 10:41 ` Oliver Schneider
2014-06-11 13:16 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-12 18:46 ` Oliver Schneider [this message]
2014-06-13 1:23 ` Rich Felker
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