Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:07:49 -0700 From: btjones@dakotahdirect.com To: antony@abacus.co.uk Cc: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE? Message-ID: <OF563BCD65.B285A006-ON88256A9D.0062E45C@dakotahdirect.com>
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Antony T Curtis <antony@dp.abacus.co.uk> wrote: >"Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" wrote: >> >> Go for RUTABAGA. It's cute. > >We cannot use -APPLE, -APRICOT, -CHERRY nor -ORANGE or some company >would get very sour... > >But there is -BANANA, -PEAR, -GRAPE, -NECTARINE, -TOMATO, -MELON, >-STRAWBERRY, -RASPBERRY... > >Or maybe more exotically, -DUREN, -LYCHEE, -RUMBUTANG, -STARFRUIT... I think as long as we specifically avoid -LEMON things will be fine. Personally I think the idea of all this name changing is silly. I was one of those newbies to this list not very long ago and I once asked those questions "why is stable not stable?" If we go mucking about with the names, we're certain to be asked questions like "Okay, is -RAISIN the patched -GRAPE?" and "Why do you call it -BANANA? Why not just call it -RELEASE?" I think a version of FreeBSD which incorporates only patches that can be applied BOTH by CVSup and by simply adding patches one at a time, which seems to me is what the RELENG_4_3 branch is trying to do, is the same as applying any other system patch, and doesn't deserve a rename of the base OS. All that will do is for certain confuse scripts that use 'uname -a' to determine the installed OS. ---------------------------------- The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. - Douglas Adams (1952-2001) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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