From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 17:55:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD32C106566C for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 17:55:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emailrob@emailrob.com) Received: from mx03.dls.net (mx03.dls.net [216.145.245.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0A48FC19 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 17:55:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.145.235.55] (helo=emailrob.com) by mx03.dls.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OM31p-0005SL-Vl; Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:55:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4C0E7626.3090807@emailrob.com> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:56:06 +0100 From: spellberg_robert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fbsd_chat References: <4C0A67E7.3080405@freebsd.org> <4C0E5712.2000606@emailrob.com> <86eigho2m2.fsf@ds4.des.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [_fbsd_chat_] why the different eol lengths ? [ was: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.2 EoL coming soon ] X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:55:59 -0000 i understand about limited resources forcing the number down. that is not my point. this may be a semantics game, but, in general, do fbsd project_people consider the right_most digit[s] to be a "minor_version number", a "patch_level" or something_else ? the answer may help clarify my thinking for my follow_up. rob