Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:19:17 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Paul_Richards=FC?=" <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk> Cc: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com>, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More BETA evilness Re: BETA induced nervousness Message-ID: <20010316201917.G61859@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <3AB2B9F4.B772ED78@freebsd-services.co.uk>; from paul@freebsd-services.co.uk on Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:12:20AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103161757240.26609-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> <3AB2B9F4.B772ED78@freebsd-services.co.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:12:20AM +0000, Paul Richardsü wrote: > It doesn't seem like setting the OS version to beta gains us anything, > we might as well do Wrong. You obviously never tried building ports before only to discover that they break in strange ways because of stupid version checking configure scripts or otherwise. This was a real problem in the olden days. We still need to do this to catch other mistakes. IMO we still need something, but it need not be called BETA, it can be called PRERELEASE (which is what Kris suggested). -- wca [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6sruVF47idPgWcsURAlPSAJ9xPlQ69VND1SeFBtxmffwI7cWQ5QCfXa1I 9Nl4MSYr1sRKZvP3CNeQ340= =YR5u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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