At the moment we don't provide a strong guarantee that release upgrades will be 100% backward-compatible. Having a "stable" channel that jumps between releases would be misleading I think.
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, 15:07 Linus Heckemann, <a...@sphalerite.org> wrote: > On 06/03/17 15:03, Domen Kožar wrote: > > It's something like 15min of work to parse http://nixos.org/channels/ > > and point to the latest channel if someone needs this. > > > > Officially this is a very bad idea, since people will want us to > > support it. > > Isn't the point to just have it refer to the version of NixOS that *is* > being supported? I don't see how parsing http://nixos.org/channels will > convey that information — 17.03 has existed for longer than it's been > supported, no? I.e. stable rather than latest. > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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