Re: starting with 2.7

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2005-01-06 at 20:02, John Richard Moser wrote:
> experiments have no place in production; if your "stable" mainline
> branch is going to continuously add and remove features and go through
> wild API and functionality changes, nobody is going to want to use it.
> Mozilla doesn't support IE's broken crap "because IE is a moving
> target."  Unpredictable API changes and changes to the deep inner

IE hasn't moved in years. The inventiveness of the bad web page authors
might be unbounded 8)

> workings of the kernel will make the kernel "a moving target."  If
> that's the route you take, it will become too difficult for people to
> develope for linux.

Its also impossible to do development if none of the changes you make
get into the kernel for stability reasons ever. Its a double edged
sword. For most end users it is about distribution kernels not the base.


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