On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 08:05 -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:01:16AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > but let be clear - As soon as 2.4 is out and seems stable it will be in > > centos 4. :) > > > > What's the timeframe for 2.4? I'm curious because I'm about to roll > out yum in a company, and if 2.3 is going to become a stable branch at > 2.4, should I wait for anything in particular? Like will the group > repo format of features change? > Like in all cases the timeline is 'when it is ready' But we've decided to branch from more-or-less 2.3.4 rather than waiting for some other things to land. no changes to the metadata format. Really b/t 2.2 and 2.4 the big changes: - sqlite - plugins - yum shell - elementtree parsing - faster in a variety of places. - api is a _little_ less fugly. -sv