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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:00:04 -0000 (GMT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@tri-lakes.net>
To:        Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fwd: CVSup release identity
Message-ID:  <XFMail.971010160401.cdillon@tri-lakes.net>
In-Reply-To: <l03110702b060ec72f7a6@[208.2.87.4]>

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On 08-Oct-97 Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
>At 5:05 PM -0500 10/7/97, Chris Dillon wrote:
>>2.2-CURRENT? Thats a new branch to me...  Unless you are speaking
>>hypothetically of a branch which has not yet had its first release,
>which
>>in that case, is still taken into account by the above example.
>
>NO. I am speaking posthumorously (sp?). 2.2-CURRENT was around back in
>the
>days when 2.1 was the "stable" branch and before 2.2.0 was released.

<smack> Yes, of course.. the past-tense. What planet was my brain on? :-)

>>What better alphanumeric incremented counter than time itself?
>I agree. Encoding the time in some scheme to save a few characters
>is counterproductive. Use a scheme where the meaning is easy for
>humans. Besides, we save enough characters by dropping "-STABLE"
>to make up most of the difference.

Yes, time makes MUCH more sense to a human than some space-saving encoding
scheme.

>Richard Wackerbarth



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