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Subject: Re: how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"?
From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
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On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 01:15 -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >> legitimately experimental content in the source tree.  surely *some*
> >> of that is suitably mature such that that dependency can be dropped.
> > 
> > What is the connection between age of code and experimental status ?
> 
> Is it reasonable for in-tree code to remain "experimental" indefinately?

Or until death. E.g. "devfs" went directly from "experimental" to
"obsolete".

	Bernd
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