2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2010/3/7 Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora@xxxxxxxxx>: >> 2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski: >>> 2010/3/6 Orcan Ogetbil: >>>> The numbers 11, 12 should only indicate the core >>>> components revision number . >>> >>> I'm not convinced to this philosophy. I have used a few Linux distros >>> in past 11 years, and this is something new to me... >>> >> >> I understand that. However there are philosophies that don't convince >> me either. If you consider gtk2-2.18 to be stable enough to support in >> Fedora 12, then why can't you support it in F-11? Laziness? Lack of >> manpower? Is it because F-11 is supposed to be "more stable" than >> F-12? Then why do we stop supporting F-11 (such a stable release by >> this logic) after only a couple months? > > Let's consider a situation - I'm developing a project in php 5.2. This > project might work fine on php 5.3 - I don't know I didn't tested it > yet. I'm depending on 5.2 version. Testing this code for a new php > will take some time. > > Php 5.3 is considered as stable in F12 - fine for me, but IMHO should > never be considered as an update for F11. Some people depend on some > constant values here - php 5.2, postgres 8.3 etc. > > I know that there is a RHEL5/CentOS5 for such things, but this is > pretty outdated OS for my needs. > Again I say "updates-testing"! Leaving php-5.3 in testing on F-11 for a couple months will warn the users what is coming up and gives them plenty of time to adapt. Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
