Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 19:48:27 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> To: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conditionally including <sys/param.h> Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970209194817.00b06db0@dimaga.com>
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At 01:25 AM 2/6/97 -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote: >Also, I would like to propose to have osreldate updated in a way that >all 2.1*s come before all 2.2*s and they come before all 3.*s. As >seen in the recent top port debacle, simply using the release >year/month is bound to utter confusion. > >Right now we have (from the handbook): > >=== >2.0-RELEASE: 199411 >2.1-current's: 199501, 199503 >2.0.5-RELEASE: 199504 >2.2-current before 2.1: 199508 >2.1.0-RELEASE: 199511 >2.2-current before 2.1.5: 199512 >2.1.5-RELEASE: 199607 >2.2-current before 2.1.6: 199608 >2.1.6-RELEASE: 199612 >2.2-RELEASE: 199701 >3.0-current as of Feb 1997: 199702 (will certainly be bumped) >=== > >Obviously everything up to 2.1.6R can't be changed, but the last two >are still salvagable. Let's say we make them > >=== >2.2-RELEASE: 199707 >3.0-current as of Feb 1997: 199801 >=== > >so we have more space to squeeze in 2.1.7R and 2.2.5R and such without >sacrificing the linear ordering. I disagree. I think we should make them 2.2-RELEASE: 2200000 3.0-current: 3000000 with LOADS of space to mess around in, and not something looking like dates. Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org
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