From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 08:54:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2E016A4BF; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:54:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [195.143.231.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5883943FBF; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (fmhmda@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.9p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h98FsbOC079912; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 17:54:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.9p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h98FsbLV079911; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 17:54:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <200310081554.h98FsbLV079911@lurza.secnetix.de> To: murray@freebsdmall.com (Murray Stokely) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 17:54:37 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20031008152356.GH7209@freebsdmall.com> from "Murray Stokely" at Oct 08, 2003 08:23:56 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: re@freebsd.org cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9-RC2 is on ftp-master.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:54:42 -0000 Murray Stokely wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:41:04PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Just a small question: Wouldn't it be a good idea to put > > each RC under its own subdirectory in ISO-IMAGES, too? > > I don't think so, but it has been brought up before.. > > I don't want people to glance at a '4.9' directory along with 4.8, > 4.7, etc.. until we actually have something called 4.9 release. > Relying on users to actually look inside the directory and see that we > only have RCs and not the final release is I think asking too much. The subdirectory should be called "4.9-RC2", of course, not just "4.9". And for the actual release, it should be called "4.9-RELEASE". Exactly like the directory names of the FTP install trees. Currently, there is a significant inconsistency, which needs to be fixed. IMO. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "It combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript." -- Jamie Zawinski, when asked: "What's wrong with perl?"