Long release cycle (was: RE: uclibc tool chain installation problem)
Manuel Novoa III
mjn3 at codepoet.org
Wed Mar 22 02:02:32 UTC 2006
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
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