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Subject: Re: CVSUP vs. SNAPS
In-Reply-To: <199710041806.MAA23536@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Oct 4, 97 12:06:31 pm"
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
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According to Nate Williams:
> 
> How CVS fits in this is really irrelevant, since the users don't care
> for the most part how it's done, and CVS will support whatever we want
> it to do.
> 
> There is a *huge* different from a 2.2-stable box that was built slightl
> after '2.2-RELEASE', and one built today.  It would be nice (and trivial
> to do) to have the branch tag change *AFTER* 2.2.5 to say
> '2.2.5-stable'.
> 
> But, it doesn't have to happen until *after* the bits are set down for
> 2.2.5, so arguments now are only wasting time.  We can always argue for
> it after 2.2.5 is done. :) :)
> 
> 
> Nate
> 
> ps.  I note that the 'tag' used to denote '2.2-RELEASE' is
> "RELENG_2_2_0_RELEASE" and *NOT* "RELENG_2_2_RELEASE", which is what
> Jordan is arguing about.  Even internally the tags seem to support what
> Rod and others are arguing for, we just want to make that information
> available to the kernel.
> 


	This view wins over Jordon's for the evidence presented
	in the first paragraph.  The CVS//RCS intrinsics have
	meaning solely to the people who use it--FreeBSD.org in
	our case.   The user-community sees things from a different
	perspective; and here, as elsewhere, perception is the
	_only_ thing that counts.

	gary kline