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Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA'
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:16:02 -0800
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> Drop by the newsgroup.  There was a thread last week about
> someone using cvsup expecting to get 4.2-stable and he got
> 4.3-beta.  He was annoyed and confused because he thought 
> beta meant "beta quality" (as in inferior software).

Well, there are two different things here though:

1. The usage of "BETA" to denote some pre-release collection of bits
   on an FTP site.

2. The usage of BETA in newvers.sh

I think it's #2 which is actually causing all the problems here and I
would happily forgo changing newvers.sh until it's time for the actual
release.  I don't usually mark it BETA myself, but one of my helpers
here jumped the gun this time. :)

- Jordan

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