Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:47:46 -0400 (EDT) From: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latest Current build failure Message-ID: <199609040447.AAA17307@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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In Email, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote: > > If you've achieved nothing else, you've definitely made the point to > me that we've got a serious image problem with -current these days, > namely that it's entirely *too* visible. -current was truly never That's because you called it -current instead of something like -experimental.... "current" is a word usually associated with generally good things... "current" technology, "current" affairs... The "current" version of most commercial software is the last version _released_, not the version being developed. -experimental, or -develop is a much more apt description. It's semantics at its worst. -- -- tIM...HOEk The opinions expressed above are mine, and if my employer shares them, that's his hard luck.
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