On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:30:24AM +0200, Nils Vogels wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:05:13AM +0300, Timo Sirainen (TS) wrote: > TS> > TS> I don't think packaging is going to be that big of a problem. If the > packagers > TS> can't handle that, then just don't package it. Development versions don't > TS> really need binary packages anyway.. And for those using the binary > packages, > TS> the alpha/beta/rc in the version make it pretty easy to understand what > kind > TS> of a release it is. > > This will work just fine for FreeBSD ports!
Same for pkgsrc.
The most important thing though is that the latest format *release* is
always supported with security/critical fixes, so people are not "forced"
to track RC's as they are now with 1.0.
But there can always be a parallel -devel package for those interested.
Geert
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