D Canfield wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
API or ABI stability in between updates is not generally guaranteed
in Fedora. Any given release of any software including the kernel
does not work in an ideal way for some users.
Like I said in an earlier in the context of releases and updates in
Fedora it means robustness and not stagnancy.
So, what's the point of a release, really? Can you really call an
API/ABI/release "stagnant" when the next release is (generally) only 6
months away?
There is no broad of ABI or API stability other that what the upstream
projects provide. There are several updates in between including the
kernel which provides no ABI guarantee for the modules. The only way to
avoid breaking that would be to backport security and bug fixes and not
release updates in between that while the goal within the project
happens to be staying close to the upstream releases as much as possible.
Why not take the debian methodology to the extreme and just have a
testing and core repository with no releases? There's no interest in
getting or keeping any end users, right?
Avoid rhetoric since it doesnt help at all.
I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm just trying to understand the
point of the distro.
I am hoping that the overview helps in understanding that better.
changing linux distribution in the world" and be done with it. Don't
leave it to us to debate some contrived meaning of the word "stable"
on the mailing lists.
The problem is that "stable" means many things to many people. One of
these happens to non changing which isnt what Fedora is all about. I
have replaced it with robust in the overview now. Hope that helps.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview.
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Rahul
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