Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 17:26:15 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When is 2.2 Estimated to be released? Message-ID: <199603100026.RAA00598@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603092140.FAA03040@jhome.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Mar 10, 96 05:40:35 am
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> Just out of interest, a diff -c between the most recent releases and branches > (after stripping $Id$ changes etc) is about this: > > 2.0.5R -> 2.1.0R = about 10MB > 2.1.0R -> 2.1-stable = about 6MB > 2.1-stable -> 2.2-current = about 17MB. > > The difference from -stable to -current is heading towards being twice the > size of the 2.0.5R -> 2.1.0R changes. It should comfortably hit 20MB once > good chunks of 4.4Lite2 goes in.. A 2.1.x release would be based on -stable, not on -current. Since 0.0.5 (2.0.5R -> 2.1.0R) is worth 10M of diffs, that 2M/revision number. That makes -stable, at best, a 2.1.3. 8-). This assumes we go by magnitude for marketing reasons instead of numerically for technical ones (numerically, we'd call it 2.1.1). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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