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by homeomorphic 14y ago
It's not meant to be a decimal number. A version number is a sequence of natural numbers ordered lexicographically.
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
A very interesting read! By the way, shouldn't the right hand side text on slide 7 (the final part of slide 7) talk about the pointers z and x, instead of the values pointed at? (Aside: How do I write "asterisk x" on HN without getting an i
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
> Move to Open Web Standards and you won't have to worry about platforms changing core libraries and breaking all your apps ever again. Instead the user has to worry about whether or not the many libraries bundled by the webapp are all
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
> That problem already exists, except currently there is generally a six month minimum before it gets resolved. I view it differently: Currently, the situation doesn't unexpectedly change for six months :-)
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
> If you've got workflow-critical programs you don't want updating, use the LTS release. That's what it's for. I know. And it could be that I'm just grumpy that I'm losing the great thing Ubuntu gave me: essentially 6 months of frozen D
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
With potentially hundreds of different packages playing the role of B, this could eat up a lot of manpower. What if the breakage is subtle and not well known upstream? While it could work, it sounds like something that would take a lot of Q
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
But "stuff that was stable 4 months ago" is not a trivial case either. Suppose A version 1.1 was stable 4 months ago, but that the version of B that works with A 1.1 is horribly buggy still, and the stable version of B needs A 1.0. Do we up
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
I'm sure the decision wasn't taken lightly, and I'm sure Canonical has concluded that an 18 month LTS + rolling makes the most sense for the project. As a user, I am a bit worried about rolling releases though. Maybe someone here can allevi
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
Really? I've always felt that they give me the perfect balance: the distro itself is non-rolling, so breakages (possibly) happen at known intervals, yet PPAs let me "go rolling" for a subset of packages where I want the latest and am prepar
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
Ugh, I had no idea. Thanks for informing me!
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
I find The Book Depository good, but I don't really know if they're good or evil. They're very pleasant doing business with, though.
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
No, not neccessarily. There could be optimization opportunities in the more abstract language that perhaps cannot ever arise in the less abstract.
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
It could also be true if the abstraction lays bare optimizations not available (readily enough) to the C compiler. While this wouldn't make X faster than C as languages (what does that mean, anyway?), it could make an X compiler produce fas