From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 08:53:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10175 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:53:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10157; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:53:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01555; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:53:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199803031653.LAA01555@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <8270.888915681@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 3, 98 01:01:21 am" To: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:53:30 -0500 (EST) Cc: eivind@yes.no, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > I'm somewhat frightened at the versioning issue - is > > clearly marked with 3.0 vs 2.2, and renaming would introduce > > incompatibilities. This is more of Satoshi's area, though. > > 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. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message