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In a message dated 11/8/04 5:46:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
keramida@ceid.upatras.gr writes:
>Releases are fixed points in time.  They are marked on their respective 
branch
>of development and that's it.  A x.y-RELEASE version is effectively a 
symbolic
>name for a specific moment in time.
Wow, thats what a "snapshot" used to be. How discouraging.