[1873] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: The login-scripts package and the version numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Oct 27 10:24:03 1997
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 27 Oct 1997 10:23:30 -0500
In-Reply-To: Salvatore Valente's message of "Mon, 27 Oct 1997 02:45:05 -0500 (EST)"
Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Hi. Some late thoughts about the 4.2 packages:
>
> I don't think the login-scripts package is necessary. Apparently it
> contains:
>
> /usr/athena/lib/login
> /usr/athena/lib/X11/app-defaults/Lucy
> /usr/athena/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xcluster
>
> The "Lucy" app-defaults file should be removed. (I don't think lucy
> exists anymore.) The "Xcluster" app-defaults file should go in the
> package with the xcluster executable. The lib/login directory should
> go in the xlogin package.
"Lucy" appears to go with discuss.
I'll merge the other stuff with xlogin.
> Also, it's certainly not a big deal, but I find the version
> "1.0.A7.7.3" somewhat questionable. (The sipb-athena source tree is
> collected from lots of Athena versions. I don't think we should imply
> that Athena 7.7 was particularly relevant.)
>
> For third-party software that has it's own version number (like emacs,
> mh, and tex), I don't see the point of appending "A7.7.3" to the
> version number.
We're calling the srvd 7.7.3; I choose to reflect this in the
packages.
--
Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
