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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:42:55 -0800
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Rick Jansen <Rick@Tweakers.net>
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Subject: Re: 4.2-BETA?
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On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:37:03PM +0100, Rick Jansen wrote:
> I was cvsupping my source tree, expecting to install 4.1.1-STABLE, from
> 4.1.1-RELEASE. What's this BETA thing? Is it stable enough for a
> production-database box?

It's the same thing it has always been; it is the head of the STABLE
branch. However, we are in (or are very close to) the freeze on STABLE
before it is blessed as 4.2-RELEASE, thus, the name.

But again, STABLE is what it has always been, the head of the STABLE
branch.
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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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