From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 25 19:29:57 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA14797 for current-outgoing; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 19:29:57 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA14791 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 19:29:55 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA04071; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 19:29:37 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508260229.TAA04071@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Request for bumping OSRELDATE To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 19:29:36 -0700 (PDT) Cc: current@freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <199508260220.TAA10889@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Aug 25, 95 07:20:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 894 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > From: J Wunsch > Subject: Re: Request for bumping OSRELDATE > As Paul Traina wrote: > > > > >No reaction? If nobody objects, i would bump it to 199512 (certainly > > >nobody would expect 2.2 before this point). > > No, that's the whole point of the osreldate. Bump it to TODAY please, and > >>we > > can always bump it again before we ship. > > Just to avoid misunderstanding: you mean i should make it 199508 > (or ...09) now? > > Yes, exactly. Make it 08, NEVER make it higher than "today". I will affirm this possition. Setting OSRELDATE to the future is a really nasty thing to do. As is doing #ifdef's based upon an unassigned numbers (something in pcvt comes to mind). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD