X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 14:17:23 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: igor2 AT igor2priv To: "Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" X-Debug: to=geda-user AT delorie DOT com from="gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu" From: gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu Subject: Re: [geda-user] Happy birthday In-Reply-To: <20150915115059.5939.qmail@stuge.se> Message-ID: References: <55F7EE7F DOT 101 AT unige DOT ch> <20150915115059 DOT 5939 DOT qmail AT stuge DOT se> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > Juergen Harms (juergen DOT harms AT unige DOT ch) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >> distributions have the policy of strictly limiting the distributed >> software to stable versions of upstream packages. > > Yes, it's really sad that distributions offer so little added value. > There is a huge potential for distribution differentiation in > following upstreams much more closely. Oh well. I wouldn't blame distributions. As a plain user, I wouldn't know when to use a current git version either. Is there a place where developers announce that a specific VCS version is stable, or how do I know it's not some WIP/experimental stuff at the moment I pull? Or is it guaranteed (more or less) that a specific branch is always stable after each push/merge/whatever? And then how often should I look and try the new version? Should the distribution's package manager upload 15 new packages a day if the upstream VCS changed 15 times that day? Releases can solve this: when upstream rolls a new release, at least the developers/maintainers of the upstream think that version of the stuff is stable. This is a signal from upstream to users and distributions. Regards, Igor2