From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 10:21:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25806 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:21:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25758; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:21:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25580; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199803031820.KAA25580@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "John S. Dyson" cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG (Jordan K. Hubbard), eivind@yes.no, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Mar 1998 11:53:30 EST." <199803031653.LAA01555@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 10:20:03 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At some point , I think it will be cool to have 4.0. Right now , 3.0 is the target for new and creative ideas 8) Cheers, Amancio > 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