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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:36:02 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Mischa Peters <mischa.peters@cacheflow.com>
Cc:        Albert Yang <albert@achtung.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Structure? 
Message-ID:  <200007282236.QAA60354@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:32:55 %2B0200." <20000729003255.B72431@high5.net> 
References:  <20000729003255.B72431@high5.net>  <39819359.5807.123A2B0@localhost> <200007282214.QAA60182@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <20000729003255.B72431@high5.net> Mischa Peters writes:
: On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 04:14:32PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message <39819359.5807.123A2B0@localhost> "Albert Yang" writes:
: > : OK guys, I was thinking we should throw together an agreed upon 
: > : structure for Pico?  I was thinking we'd do like FreeBSD, have a 
: > : stable and a current; with maybe 4 releases to the stable tree every 
: > : year, or whenever we feel that a release is stable.  
: > 
: > The version numbers are a stupid idea.
: 
: Because?

Because you'll wind up copying files from one version to the next.
Having the versions in the tree is a big pita when you go to do
another version.  It is just a really bad idea that has been done in
the past and caused an extreme level of pain.  Versioning is what cvs
is for.  Don't polute teh build tree with them.

Warner


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