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On Friday, May 22, 2020, Samuel Bernardo <samuelbernardo.mail@×××××.com> |
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> Hi, |
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> I realize today that nginx ebuild have a new slot mainline. The current |
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> ebuild stable version 1.17 came from mainline. Anyone knows if this |
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> means that is not the stable version of nginx? |
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> After reading the following blog post I couldn't understand what they |
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> are doing now: |
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> https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-6-1-7-released/ |
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> Thanks, |
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> Samuel |
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Features are added to the mainline branch, it can be broken from time to |
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time. After it's tested it's merged into the stable branch. |
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Mainline is like the dev branch and stable is like the master branch. |
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If you need higher stability pick the stable releases, if you need new |
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features pick the mainline releases. |
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Tomas |