From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 3 11:14:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from corns2.dakotahdirect.com (corns2.dakotahdirect.com [216.64.128.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6BB37B411 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:14:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from btjones@dakotahdirect.com) Subject: Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE? To: antony@abacus.co.uk Cc: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.4 June 8, 2000 Message-ID: From: btjones@dakotahdirect.com Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:07:49 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on CORNS2/Dakotah(Release 5.0.4 |June 8, 2000) at 08/03/2001 11:07:32 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Antony T Curtis wrote: >"Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" wrote: >> >> Go for RUTABAGA. It's cute. > >We cannot use -APPLE, -APRICOT, -CHERRY nor -ORANGE or some company >would get very sour... > >But there is -BANANA, -PEAR, -GRAPE, -NECTARINE, -TOMATO, -MELON, >-STRAWBERRY, -RASPBERRY... > >Or maybe more exotically, -DUREN, -LYCHEE, -RUMBUTANG, -STARFRUIT... I think as long as we specifically avoid -LEMON things will be fine. Personally I think the idea of all this name changing is silly. I was one of those newbies to this list not very long ago and I once asked those questions "why is stable not stable?" If we go mucking about with the names, we're certain to be asked questions like "Okay, is -RAISIN the patched -GRAPE?" and "Why do you call it -BANANA? Why not just call it -RELEASE?" I think a version of FreeBSD which incorporates only patches that can be applied BOTH by CVSup and by simply adding patches one at a time, which seems to me is what the RELENG_4_3 branch is trying to do, is the same as applying any other system patch, and doesn't deserve a rename of the base OS. All that will do is for certain confuse scripts that use 'uname -a' to determine the installed OS. ---------------------------------- The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. - Douglas Adams (1952-2001) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message