[haiku-development] Re: rolling release? ever? maybe?
- From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:28:03 -0500
On Thursday, November 17, 2011, <scrawler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm currently an Arch Linux user and a wannabe Haiku
> dabbler. I love arch's rolling release, and I was wondering
> if anything like it has been considered for Haiku.
I also use Arch on one of my machines and do enjoy the rolling releases
too. Whether this approach makes sense to Haiku is not a simple question.
For one thing I think the rolling release approach is practically required
on Linux due to constant library breakage and just general bad software
management. It also is far from perfect and frequently system upgrades can
break components (though this applies to any sort of updating.)
For Haiku we plan to take a more professional and traditional approach of
releasing a system with a stable set of libraries and API. If your software
works on Haiku R1 it should work in future versions, until we explicitly
declare that certain APIs are no longer supported.
Also I do think you can count on easy system updates and upgrade in the
future with Haiku's planned package system. Whether that means you can
simply upgrade an R1 system to R2 and beyond is still a question, but I
think it is likely.
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Regards,
Ryan
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