From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 12:30:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from seaholm.caamora.com.au (seaholm.caamora.com.au [203.7.226.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815B737B424 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@seaholm.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by seaholm.caamora.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3BJRIt09704; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 05:27:18 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <20010412052718.44835@caamora.com.au> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 05:27:18 +1000 From: jonathan michaels To: Oliver Fromme Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Releases References: <200104102154.f3ALsce84245@ns1.unixathome.org> <200104111345.PAA67262@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <200104111345.PAA67262@lurza.secnetix.de>; from Oliver Fromme on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:45:41PM +0200 Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG oliver, On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:45:41PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > > On 10 Apr 2001, at 14:48, David O'Brien wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:32:15AM +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > > > > AFAIK, the thread to date has been about whether or not [something like] > > > > the label "-development" would cause less confusion than "-current". My snipped for compactness > Maybe it would reduce confusion somewhat if people would > just stop saying ``4.1-stable'' etc. Those simply do not > exist. > > I would also vote for ``uname -r'' saying ``4-STABLE'' and > appending the date (similar to the snapshot naming), like > ``4-STABLE-20010509''. This is much more useful than > ``4.3-STABLE'', IMO. actually, given teh granularity of teh cvs system it might be worthwhile to add hh:mm .. on second thoughts your sugestion is teh sanest i've seen and personally wonder why it wasn't done like this fron teh begining. this is how cvs functions, and give we use cvs why not make it ease fro people to actually use the resources that are provide by cvs, i.e. the very system that we use. with regard and thanks. jonathan > Just my 2 Euro cents ... and my two pacific peso centimes .. heading for 1 us cent and falling -- ================================================================ Jonathan Michaels http://www.caamora.com.au PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 suffering construction anxiety ============================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message