On Friday, February 27 2009, seth vidal said: > On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 13:18 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > It's not, really. Fedora's is the only development branch which is so > > neglected, no other distro's is. To give the example I'm most familiar > > with, Mandriva's development branch has, this cycle, gone through a > > complete rebuild, Python 2.5 -> 2.6 migration, Tcl 8.5 -> 8.6 migration, > > X server 1.4 -> 1.6 (git snapshot then final release) migration, and a > > few other major changes. Most developers run it, as do quite a lot of > > testers, and it generally works. (While the Python 2.6 rebuild was going > > on, if you tried to upgrade, you'd see about four hundred errors. This > > was a fairly good clue that you should wait until the rebuild was > > complete before updating. Most people are able to handle this level of > > cogitation.) > > To be fair - no other distro revs as quickly or as much as fedora does, > either. We tend to get new things first. That's one of Fedora's goals. > > So, saying that other distros have an easier development branch is > really just evidence that fedora is doing what fedora does, move > quickly. That said, I've been running rawhide on basically all of my boxes all the time without a need for a reinstall[1] for a decade later this year! :-) Jeremy [1] I tend to do fresh installs when I get new hardware but that's about the only time -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
