I come from the BSD world and the process there is very very different. So my question is more to understand than to critique. So understanding the "attitude" if you will surrounding the process is important.
James On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 14:27, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 21:41, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > Which begs the question. Is cooker an extension of the previous distro > > or is it a distro in and of itself. The former IMHO is the preferable > > situation and I might add the more profitable alternative. The latter > > yields more problems and more disgruntled users. (I'm having the same > > argument at work BTW.) > > Erroneous question. You have to look at things the other way around. > > How is Mandrake developed? With a "live" development version - that is, > a development version of the distribution to which new packages are > uploaded as the developer finishes them. > > This is Cooker. > > How is Mandrake released? By freezing Cooker at a certain point, calling > it Mandrake X.X, and releasing it. > > You're looking at things backwards.
