From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Feb 14 7:40: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752893F22; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 07:39:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (v-ger [158.227.6.179]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA13095; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:39:23 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <38A821A8.86D27BC@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:39:20 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pa=EDs?= Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y =?iso-8859-1?Q?Electr=F3nica?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, es, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Difference between RELEASE and VERSION References: <200002141328.IAA19670@server.baldwin.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Baldwin wrote: > > On 14-Feb-00 gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to ask a native English speaker for an explanation of the > > difference between the terms "release" and "version". > > > > The reason for my question is that I am working on a translation and I > > am not sure if I should translate these terms into German (which would > > probably result in the same German word) or if I should keep the > > English words in order not to drop subtle nuances. > > Release, version, and revision all mean pretty much the same thing. > Each indicates a particular point in the development of a file or > program. Version can be used for both individual files and overall > programs, thus when you talk about the version of something, it's > meaning can end up being ambiguous. To try to get around this, we > just don't use version at all, but use two words for the two possible > meanings it has. Release refers to the version of an overall product, > so that you have FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE. Revision is reserved for the > version of individual files. Thus, you can checkout revision 1.52 of > src/etc/login.conf, for example. Hope this helps. > We [the people working in the Spanish documentation project] have the same problem. Moreover, "release" is very difficult to translate into Spanish. I prefer to translate "version" as "versión" :-), and "release" as the equivalent to "edition" ("edición"). Another possibility is the equivalent to "distribution" ("distribución"). Anyway, I think that something like "FreeBSD edition 3.4" sounds fine even in English :-) -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.org Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message