Final by default?

Martin Krejcirik mk-junk at i-line.cz
Thu Mar 13 05:46:04 PDT 2014


Dne 13.3.2014 12:07, Jonathan M Davis napsal(a):
> really going to help much. There may ultimately still be some value in them,
> but most people who suggest this sort of solution seem to be under the
> impression that it would somehow stop accidental code breakage, and that isn't

The point of long-term stable release is not that no bugs ever can be 
introduced. The point is that there are fewer changes and no language 
and library changes which force the user to update his source code are 
introduced (accept-invalid aside, maybe).

Currently users have to choice either:

- stick with some old release with no bugfixes at all
- always upgrade to the latest release, which mixes bugfixes, language 
and library changes.

What if user want just regressions and (some) major bugs fixed ?

Also long-term stable release would make a base against which 
deprecations can be marked.

-- 
mk


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