Long release cycle (was: RE: uclibc tool chain installation
problem)
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Tue Mar 21 08:00:03 PST 2006
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 4:17 am, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> Well, the extremely long release cycle of uClibc is definitely
> a problem. We are currently stuck at 0.9.27 as 0.9.28 does not
> work for us. The code in svn works, but as there is no new
> release in sight, we have to wait to upgrade. :(
I'm going to start pestering them about it as soon as I get busybox 1.1.1 out.
Should be today, if I can finish my passwd.c changes and get solar to review
it.
> A release cycle of one to two months rather than once a year
> would be much appreciated.
Busybox is aiming for every 3. No guarantee we'll hit it, but that's what
we're trying for. :)
> So please, with sugar on top, could we try to increase the rate
> of uClibc releases?
The traditional thing to do is send Erik Andersen a cake. His mailing address
is in his resume on codepoet.org. (You'll have to check the archives to find
out why this is a tradition, of course.)
> //Peter
Rob
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