Long release cycle (was: RE: uclibc tool chain installation problem)

[Manuel Novoa III]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:16:12AM -0800, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> >
> >And no, using snapshots is really not an option, as it is much 
> >harder to relate to a snapshot when bug tracking.  It is much 
> >easier to say "we have a problem with 0.9.32" and have others 
> >relate to what we mean, than to say "we have a problem with 
> >the snapshot of 2010-03-21".
> >
> >Also, with snapshots you never know if you accidentally pull
> >the sources in the middle of someone else's half finished 
> >changes.  This is unlikely to happen with official releases.
> >  
> 
> One more issue I have noticed with taking snapshot is that in last 1-2 
> months, drastic cleanup changes have been made in uClibc makefiles 
> almost every week, which makes moving from one snapshot to another very 
> difficult. I will appreciate if checkins to uClibc source base are 
> mostly fixes/enhancements and are approved by other uClibc developers.

Reciprocally, can you name ANY ways in which montavista has supported
development of uClibc?  I don't recall any.  Neither could Erik when I
asked him this afternoon.

Manuel