Strictly IMHO (I'm not a developer, just a casual contributor):
I've also wondered about this... MC follows the standard model of two
concurrent branches (devel containing new and riskier changes, vs. stable
for obvious bugfixes but no big changes or new features; where every once
in a while the devel branch is stablized to the new stable and a new devel
is branched out). It's only the numbering that's a bit unusual (not the
standard x.even.y = stable, x.odd.y = devel, but something more
complicated), but it's clearly noted on the homepage which version is
stable and which is devel.
So I guess this is a very good question, but I'm afraid MC developers are
not the right people to answer this. I think you should ask distributions
why they choose the devel version, it's their decision (their fault if
you wish). I think we'd all be eager to hear their reasons.
egmont
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote:
Last Debian, Fedora *buntu releases had 4.8.x. Current Gentoo is 4.8.7.
Mageia 3 is about to be released with 4.8.7. So, why does the
stable/4.8.1.x branch even exist?
--
The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
__**_
mc-devel mailing list
https://mail.gnome.org/**mailman/listinfo/mc-develhttps://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
___
mc-devel mailing list
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
