From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
To: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
Cc: Marc Sune <marcdevel@gmail.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] On DPDK ABI policy
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 14:52:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160407215213.GB28667@mhcomputing.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <570649C7.2030709@redhat.com>
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 02:51:35PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> LTS releases could help the situation somewhat, but then again
> people tend to still want those new fancy things backported (you
> know, have the cake and eat it too) but that can't be done because
> of ABI breakage, so they're forced to run the latest version anyway.
RH and Debian / Ubuntu don't put features in LTS except extremely rarely.
Generally only if there's severe functionality breakage or security issues and
the rest is ignored, and for good reason, as this is much more reliable and
simple and predictable.
If people are so irrational they can't deal with that simple of a policy,
NEXT_ABI, LTS, etc. is never going to help them.
If people like to have backported stuff, yes of course we can make trees and
branches for this, they are basically free in Git. But at that point community
people in need of LTS forks of features need to step up to the plate to help
out.
Matthew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-07 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-05 13:56 [dpdk-dev] DPDK namespace Thomas Monjalon
2016-04-05 14:13 ` Trahe, Fiona
2016-04-05 14:31 ` Trahe, Fiona
2016-04-05 14:31 ` Arnon Warshavsky
2016-04-06 5:26 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-04-06 12:07 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-04-06 12:34 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-04-06 14:36 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-04-06 20:21 ` Dave Neary
2016-04-07 8:22 ` Marc
2016-04-11 16:10 ` Don Provan
2016-04-11 16:28 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-04-06 12:41 ` Jay Rolette
2016-04-06 12:51 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-04-07 9:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-04-07 9:33 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-04-07 10:16 ` Marc Sune
2016-04-07 11:51 ` [dpdk-dev] On DPDK ABI policy Panu Matilainen
2016-04-07 21:52 ` Matthew Hall [this message]
2016-04-08 8:29 ` Marc Sune
2016-04-08 8:47 ` Marc Sune
2016-04-07 21:48 ` [dpdk-dev] DPDK namespace Matthew Hall
2016-04-07 22:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
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