[BusyBox] Problem with mkdir of busybox-0.60.5

Allan (pls reply to list only) discard at chickenandporn.com
Tue Nov 26 15:22:03 UTC 2002


Hey Glenn;

> Im not sure if you realise, but the stable branch is on its last legs.
> 
> The unstable branch has been in development for over a year now, Erik has
> said he intends make a stable release from the unstable code and remove
> the current fork soonish.

The problem with that logic is that the "stable" busybox is actually
"the busybox that appears to have been tested"

The problem you state -- people reporting bugs in a 31-day-old release
(BB-0.60.5 on 20021026) -- can be avoided by simply cutting a new
release and have some organized, coherent testing... maybe even
self-tests in the source base.  Wouldn't that be scary?

Allan


Glenn McGrath wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:54:44 +0530
> k.s.sathish at delphiauto.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > Good morning Glenn,
> >
> > I have downloaded "busybox-unstable-20021122.tar " file , and extracted
> > only mkidr.c , ash.c file and put them in ( busybox-0.60.5/ stable
> > version ). Compiled and built it , but i guess the answer remains the
> > same.
> >
> 
> Im not sure if you realise, but the stable branch is on its last legs.
> 
> The unstable branch has been in development for over a year now, Erik has
> said he intends make a stable release from the unstable code and remove
> the current fork soonish.
> 
> As such, its hard to be motivated to fix bug in stable, i think ts better
> to fix bugs in unstable so we can have a release from that branch sooner.
> 
> If you try the mkdir in unstable im confident it will work.
> 
> Unstable can be buggy at times, but perhaps you would be better off using
> a snapshot from unstable.
> 
> If you find bugs in unstable people will be interested in fixing them,
> porting from unstable back to stable is more than just copying the
> individual files.
> 
> Glenn
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