*-devel ports

js ebgssth at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 06:00:14 PST 2008


If the developer call it as stable and the other's development,
Let' follow it.
Anyone who like to use newer can easily choose -devel one.

On Feb 7, 2008 10:50 PM, Vincent Lefevre <vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org> wrote:
> On 2008-02-07 22:08:57 +0900, js wrote:
> > I agree with you,
> > but I think that the situation that devel-ver < stable-ver is very
> > rare. I've never seen it. (By newer, you means the version number is
> > greater, right?)
>
> It happens for tin almost each time a new stable version is released
> (because it is released before new development work starts). The same
> thing seems to happen with zsh:
>
>   http://zsh.dotsrc.org/News/
>
> 4.2.0 (stable) was released on 2004-03-19, a 4.3 (unstable) series was
> announced on 2005-02-08, and the first 4.3-based version (4.3.1) was
> released on 2006-02-28. So, for almost two years, the latest version
> (in term of features and bug fixes) was a stable release!
>
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