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From: Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson@atmel.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] build problems
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:15:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <032601c88f86$e52e3720$060514ac@atmel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ve39buzq.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk

> I see that the directory only has a busybox config for 1.6.1 and
> 1.9.1, so it's broken anyway if the user selects anything else than
> that.

Yes, and then the user is responsible for creating a configuration for that.
The current tree will modify the configuration of an existing .config
file without warning the user, which is even more broken.

> 
> To me it doesn't make sense to keep earlier versions than the latest
> stable release of a given major version (E.G. 1.9.2 instead of 1.9.1)

What you are saying here is that you do not want to allow people
to decide for themselves when they should upgrade the busybox version.
I think a lot of project managers would have an issue with this.

> - Otherwise it'll get too hard to handle. I think it's also soon time
> to retire some of the really ancient versions like 1.2.x - 1.6.x.
> 

Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-26 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-25 21:43 [Buildroot] build problems Tim Barr
2008-03-25 22:41 ` Ulf Samuelsson
2008-03-26 11:11   ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-03-26 17:17     ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-03-26 22:39       ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-03-27 11:24         ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-03-26 21:15     ` Ulf Samuelsson [this message]
2008-03-26 21:34       ` Peter Korsgaard
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-26 16:09 Tim Barr
2008-03-26 12:59 Tim Barr
2008-03-26 20:50 ` Ulf Samuelsson
2008-03-25  2:37 Steve Calfee
2008-03-24 12:45 Tim Barr
2008-03-24 12:52 ` John Voltz
2008-03-24 21:12 ` Lucian Lazarescu
2008-03-25 10:08 ` Ulf Samuelsson
2008-03-23 15:51 Steve Calfee
2008-03-25 10:10 ` Ulf Samuelsson
2008-03-05  1:33 Steve Calfee
2008-03-05  9:20 ` Ulf Samuelsson
2008-03-04 22:19 Steve Calfee

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