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Date:      Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:27:33 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Cc:        jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@yes.no, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <199803031927.MAA02248@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803031653.LAA01555@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Mar 3, 98 11:53:30 am

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> > Don't worry about it.  The version is NOT going to change, period.
> > It's going to be 3.0 no matter what the feature set is and I wonder
> > why people are even wasting their time debating it because it's not
> > even a subject which is open to debate.  Hell will freeze over before
> > I release a 2.5 or 2.3 or whatever you want to call it release, OK? :-)
>
> I know that this message is redundant, but I want to chime in and say that
> I agree with JKH.  This is one of those silly form/substance debates, where
> from a programming and software quality standpoint, the version number isn't
> important.  There are practical reasons why 3.0 has to be it, and let's just
> move forward.

Just to put this to rest, since I'm the one that suggested it, given
the goals, it's not a good idea to rename the 3.0 to a lesser version.

My primary concern was pushing SMP and other features out to 4.0.
One of the suggestions was pushing out to 3.1 or 3.2; I could
certainly live with that.

It's unfortunate that most of the rational discussion occurred in private
(or semi-private) email, where it was invisible to the place where the
issue was first raised.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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