Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:00:04 -0000 (GMT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@tri-lakes.net> To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: CVSup release identity Message-ID: <XFMail.971010160401.cdillon@tri-lakes.net> In-Reply-To: <l03110702b060ec72f7a6@[208.2.87.4]>
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On 08-Oct-97 Richard Wackerbarth wrote: >At 5:05 PM -0500 10/7/97, Chris Dillon wrote: >>2.2-CURRENT? Thats a new branch to me... Unless you are speaking >>hypothetically of a branch which has not yet had its first release, >which >>in that case, is still taken into account by the above example. > >NO. I am speaking posthumorously (sp?). 2.2-CURRENT was around back in >the >days when 2.1 was the "stable" branch and before 2.2.0 was released. <smack> Yes, of course.. the past-tense. What planet was my brain on? :-) >>What better alphanumeric incremented counter than time itself? >I agree. Encoding the time in some scheme to save a few characters >is counterproductive. Use a scheme where the meaning is easy for >humans. Besides, we save enough characters by dropping "-STABLE" >to make up most of the difference. Yes, time makes MUCH more sense to a human than some space-saving encoding scheme. >Richard Wackerbarth --- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@tri-lakes.net --- Powered by FreeBSD, the best free OS on the planet ---- (http://www.freebsd.org)
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