From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Roskin Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:59:07 -0500 Subject: [Buildroot] new DHCP version and make error In-Reply-To: <9d921c5e52578b674eefe0f12a073f9d@bowery.com> References: <54185.206.190.75.8.1164745659.squirrel@picard.linux.it> <25387.206.190.75.8.1164749926.squirrel@picard.linux.it> <1164752891.4016.9.camel@dv> <9d921c5e52578b674eefe0f12a073f9d@bowery.com> Message-ID: <1164758347.4016.24.camel@dv> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:37 -0500, Marc Lindahl wrote: > On Nov 28, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I'd like to see buildroot become a distribution over time. > > I thought buildroot was a distribution building system, not an actual > distribution... OK, let's call it a distribution building system. Once Buildroot 1 is released and the work starts on Buildroot 2, Buildroot 1 needs to remain functional for some time. It could be updated for security, but updating it just to reflect changes on the Web (such as new download locations) would be too much work. Of course, the task of mirroring could be relegated to the creators of the specific distributions, but I think the buildroot project shouldn't miss an opportunity to become more relevant to the embedded community. There are cases when stability of the platform is highly desirable. If buildroot itself provides it, we'll see more people dealing with it directly rather than through distributions based on some old snapshot. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin