From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 17:21: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A21B37B4EC for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:21:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1D1KpU56194; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:20:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200102130120.f1D1KpU56194@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Warner Losh , Daniel Eischen , John Indra , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:20:51 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Peter Wemm writes: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/stdio.diff3 > > Except that we bump to 500 instead of 6, and back to 5 before > -RELEASE. > > When we've branched RELENG_5, if we need to bump libc's major in > 6.0-CURRENT, we bump it to 600, then 601 etc. as many times as we > want, and bump it down to 6 before 6.0-RELEASE. > > People tracking -CURRENT will end up with a handful of different libc > versions, but they'll avoid the pains we're going through now, and > people upgrading from RELENG_N to RELENG_N+1 will never see a libc > major version increase of more than 1. I think this is the least evil of all. I totally support this option. It gives us a nice stable sequential *-RELEASE version numbering sequence without holes. It avoids the current problem: - RELENG_4 bumped from 3.0 to 4.0 - this forced a premature 4.0->5.0 bump in -current - we missed our chance for major changes. (!!!) If we had taken -current to 500, we could go to 501, 502, etc as required to stop killing our developers, and prior to entering 5.0-BETA we go back to the next sequentially available major number (be it 5, or 6 if RELENG_4 bumps again). Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message