On 1/26/2021 11:03 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
Carl Zwanzig (12021-01-26):
What is "invalid" there? linux does point releases, so does freebsd,
firefox, python, bind, glib, clang, etc. Find me a major opensource project,
other than ffmpeg, that tells people to use their development branch.
Debian. The number of things based on Sid, or at least testing, is
astounding.
That's good to know even if I don't use debian. Although... Debian -does- do
point releases (https://www.debian.org/releases/), the -unstable- branch,
called sid, says "Generally, this distribution is run by developers and
those who like to live on the edge." compared to the Stable branch- "This is
the production release of Debian, the one which we primarily recommend using."
I would not say that "sid" qualifies as a "release", nor that Debian tells
people to use it.
IME from many years of development, a "release" usually undergoes more
rigorous testing than daily builds and is a fixed point for support. If the
ffmpeg project chooses to do things differently, fine, but that makes them
an anomaly in the world of software.
z!
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