Dear Robin,
in message 3F64E06D.6000500@tait.co.nz you wrote:
According to sourceforge, 0.4.0 is the latest stable release and less than 3 months old. Not ancient (compared to say the kernel update cycle)
Development of U-Boot happens pretty fast. _Many_ people contribute, and DENX is running quite a lot of projects, too.
but the only thing that many people would consider using rather than an unstable* version from CVS - assuming of course they can get anything
There has never been a forma declaration of whatis stable and what not. Normally you can consider each version tagges with a U-Boot-X_Y_Z label as "stable".
from sf CVS!!
I am aware of this problem. There is little I can do about it. But I regularly put tarballs of the "minor releases" on our FTP server; see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
Perhaps its time for another stable release that is easier to patch/merge against if nothing else :-))
Well, we're preparing for something, but it will take a little more time.
- a matter of definition - but if its not stable it _must_ necessarily
be unstable :-((
Has there ever been any "stable" software? Isn't "stable software" an oxymoron per se?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk