Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:53:30 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: eivind@yes.no, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <199803031653.LAA01555@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <8270.888915681@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 3, 98 01:01:21 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > I'm somewhat frightened at the versioning issue - <osreldate.h> 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
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