From owner-freebsd-hackers  Tue Jul  1 08:33:35 1997
Return-Path: <owner-hackers>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA04326
          for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 08:33:35 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA04321
          for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 08:33:31 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] 
	by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.60 #1)
	id 0wj4vd-0006AC-00; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 09:33:17 -0600
To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Determining FreeBSD versions 
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jul 1997 19:03:53 +1000."
		<19970701190353.50830@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> 
References: <19970701190353.50830@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>  
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 09:33:17 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Message-Id: <E0wj4vd-0006AC-00@rover.village.org>
Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

In message <19970701190353.50830@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> David Dawes writes:
: branch, and as a consequence, 'uname -r' now reports "2.1-STABLE" rather

Hmmm.  Why not report 2.1.x-STABLE?  Where x is incremented whenever a
release happens.  Then people know that things are newer than 2.1.x or
2.2.x or whatever.

I'm not completely sure that parsing osversion.h (or is that
osreldate.h) is the right answer here.

Warner