[1077] in NetBSD-Development
Re: SIPB-Athena versioning (was Re: i386_linux1 locker)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Oct 22 11:04:25 1995
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 11:04:00 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1071] in NetBSD-Development"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> I've added netbsd-dev to the cc line and dropped davidz.
Enveloped to Linux-help, but removed from the cc-list.
[...]
> After some reflection, I think we want version numbers of the form:
>
> srvd.77.0A Athena 77-based, testing prior to version 1
> srvd.77.1 Athena 77-based, version 1
[...]
Yuck. This has the disadvantage of being inconsistent with the
Athena release structure, which really expects every release to
have a letter and normal releases do have a letter at the end.
Is there some reason we want to go away from that?
I don't see any particular reason why a testing version needs to
have a different naming convention that a production version.
At first:
srvd.77A
would be the testing version, and then when all the bugs were satisfied,
either it would migrade to the production version, or we would
bump the release to
srvd.77B
This would seem simpler and not have the disadvantage of possibly-confusing
sometimes-letters.
--jhawk
