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Re: glibc-2.8 tarballs?

2008-05-19 17:16 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> napisaÅ(a):
> Tarballs are a completely outdated concept.  I've said multiple times
> that I won't waste my time on them.  Tarballs are static.  If I would
> have made a 2.8 tarballs then I shortly afterwards would have had to
> made 2.8.1 and perhaps more.  There are always going to be changes.
> That's what appropriately-tagged branches in CVS are for.  You take the
> latest version of the release branch and you know you have the version
> which you are intended to use.

So should we assume that 2.8 has been already officially released?

ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/snapshots/glibc-latest.tar.bz2 is
from trunk or from the 2.8 branch?
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