[Nix-dev] 'nixos-stable' channel?

[zimbatm]

At the moment we don't provide a strong guarantee that release upgrades
will be 100% backward-compatible. Having a "stable" channel that jumps
between releases would be misleading I think.

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, 15:07 Linus Heckemann, <acc at sphalerite.org> wrote:

> On 06/03/17 15:03, Domen Kožar wrote:
> > It's something like 15min of work to parse http://nixos.org/channels/
> > and point to the latest channel if someone needs this.
> >
> > Officially this is a very bad idea, since people will want us to
> > support it.
>
> Isn't the point to just have it refer to the version of NixOS that *is*
> being supported? I don't see how parsing http://nixos.org/channels will
> convey that information — 17.03 has existed for longer than it's been
> supported, no? I.e. stable rather than latest.
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