Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:04:19 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Theo PAGTZIS <T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ambiguity between -STABLE and -RELEASE Message-ID: <19991108120419.A11594@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <1218.942090443@cs.ucl.ac.uk>; from T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk on Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 07:47:23PM %2B0000 References: <1218.942090443@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 07:47:23PM +0000, Theo PAGTZIS wrote:
> just a very basic question that would resolve a dispute between colleagues.
>
> When one talks about Fbsd3.3-STABLE my impression is that such version is a
> stage before the Fbsd3.3-RELEASE. In other words the -RELEASE is for the
> final version and the -STABLE is the version that is soon (after some further
> bug settling) to become -RELEASE.
>
> Is this the case?
Nope. ;-) 3.3-STABLE is the 3.x branch after 3.3-Release. It's probably
not correct to talk about 3.3-STABLE except that it tells people that
you are running a version of the 3-STABLE (RELENG_3 to CVS) branch after
3.3-RELEASE. The way things work is that there is a 3.x branch which
is referred to as 3-STABLE and releases are snapshots of that branch.
-- Brooks
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