[OmniOS-discuss] stable vs. bloody

[gate03 at landcroft.co.uk]

Stable can indeed mean stale.  I was unable to install stable owing to the dcopy_free() bug discussed last week on this list, but was able to install bloody and am now running with it, without problems.  So bloody can also mean 'with recent bugs removed'.

On Tue 09/10/12 00:00 , "Paul B. Henson" <henson at acm.org> wrote:

> I was curious, for those of you looking to run OmniOS in production,
> are you planning to use the "stable" release or the "bloody" release?
> Terminology wise, "stable" sounds better than "bloody" ;), but if you 
> turn that around and call them "stale" and "fresh" it gives a different 
> connotation :). It looks like stable includes upstream illumos-gate from 
> about 5 months ago, whereas bloody is at the moment fully up-to-date 
> with the current upstream. Generally, illumos-gate is intended to be 
> production quality at all times, so arguably you're more stable tracking 
> it more closely. There's only been a couple of times in the past year or 
> so a commit broke anything of note, and I think both of those times it 
> was caught pretty quick and backed out or resolved.