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Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Nov 18 21:06:52 PST 2003


:That get me wondering what's DragonFly's plan to have branches? Same as
:what FreeBSD has? Often, the STABLE branch confuse many people because of
:name of its branch, which RELENG_X_X is more stable and for production.
:
:Yes, I know there has handbook that explain about it, but it seems like
:that it doesn't explain clear enough to many people as far from what I
:have seen. :-)
:
:Cheers,
:Mezz
:
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:bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.

    I'd personally rather not have branches.  I think we can do it by
    simply using tags.  The key will be to fix the OS interfaces such that
    they are both forwards and backwards compatible beyond the first release.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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