From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 17:18:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ohm.physics.purdue.edu (ohm.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8A337B719; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:18:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@physics.purdue.edu) Received: (from will@localhost) by ohm.physics.purdue.edu (8.11.2/8.9.3) id f2H1JHO86487; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:19:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from will@physics.purdue.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: ohm.physics.purdue.edu: will set sender to will@physics.purdue.edu using -f Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:19:17 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Paul_Richards=FC?=" Cc: Chris Dillon , Kris Kennaway , Alfred Perlstein , Jim Mock , "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, j mckitrick , jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More BETA evilness Re: BETA induced nervousness Message-ID: <20010316201917.G61859@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Paul_Richards=FC?=" , Chris Dillon , Kris Kennaway , Alfred Perlstein , Jim Mock , Steve O'Hara-Smith , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, j mckitrick , jkh@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3AB2B9F4.B772ED78@freebsd-services.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qfqzlDW52eQCflvV" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AB2B9F4.B772ED78@freebsd-services.co.uk>; from paul@freebsd-services.co.uk on Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:12:20AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --qfqzlDW52eQCflvV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:12:20AM +0000, Paul Richards=FC=0E 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). --=20 wca --qfqzlDW52eQCflvV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6sruVF47idPgWcsURAlPSAJ9xPlQ69VND1SeFBtxmffwI7cWQ5QCfXa1I 9Nl4MSYr1sRKZvP3CNeQ340= =YR5u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qfqzlDW52eQCflvV-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message