Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Apr 2002 19:23:30 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre... |
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On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Pavel Machek wrote: > > I believe -pre's are still important. Daily snapshots are too likely to be > broken, and "real" releases are different from -pre ones (with *usefull* > difference): you can ignore -pre release, but you can't ignore real release > (because real releases are relative to each other).
Considering how even real releases in the development tree are likely to be broken (never mind the _trivial_ brokenness of applying the same patch to init/main.c twice, I'm talking about the more fundamental brokenness of just broken drivers and filesystems due to development), I'm not sure how big a deal that is.
And I do make full tar-files of real releases, so that people can skip a few (although unless you have a fast connection it usually only makes sense after 10 full releases or so).
> Having slightly more frequent real releases would be nice, but I believe > it is not feasible to make them as common as pre- patches.
I'll try to keep them coming a bit more often.
Linus
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