From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/5238 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Schneider Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl 1.0.x branch Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:46:10 +0000 Organization: CYREN Iceland Message-ID: <5399F572.7070902@f-prot.com> References: <20140606175617.GA3914@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <53983242.3090403@f-prot.com> <20140611131638.GS179@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402598796 22339 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2014 18:46:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:46:36 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-5243-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu Jun 12 20:46:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WvA16-0001XU-45 for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:46:28 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 5213 invoked by uid 550); 12 Jun 2014 18:46:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 5199 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2014 18:46:25 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 In-Reply-To: <20140611131638.GS179@brightrain.aerifal.cx> X-Antivirus: Scanned by F-PROT Antivirus (http://www.f-prot.com) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:5238 Archived-At: 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