From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 11:27:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12360 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:27:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12354; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:27:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05384; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:27:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd005310; Tue Mar 3 12:27:43 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA02248; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:27:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199803031927.MAA02248@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:27:33 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@yes.no, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199803031653.LAA01555@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Mar 3, 98 11:53:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Don't worry about it. The version is NOT going to change, period. > > It's going to be 3.0 no matter what the feature set is and I wonder > > why people are even wasting their time debating it because it's not > > even a subject which is open to debate. Hell will freeze over before > > I release a 2.5 or 2.3 or whatever you want to call it release, OK? :-) > > I know that this message is redundant, but I want to chime in and say that > I agree with JKH. This is one of those silly form/substance debates, where > from a programming and software quality standpoint, the version number isn't > important. There are practical reasons why 3.0 has to be it, and let's just > move forward. Just to put this to rest, since I'm the one that suggested it, given the goals, it's not a good idea to rename the 3.0 to a lesser version. My primary concern was pushing SMP and other features out to 4.0. One of the suggestions was pushing out to 3.1 or 3.2; I could certainly live with that. It's unfortunate that most of the rational discussion occurred in private (or semi-private) email, where it was invisible to the place where the issue was first raised. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message