Re: [HACKERS] 6.4.3? and version numbers

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Terry Mackintosh wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> First, what ever came of the talk of a 6.4.3 and supporting a release
> back?
> 
> A client of mine has 6.3 installed, and I need to know if I should advise
> them to go to 6.4.2? or if 6.4.3 is about to come out? or how close is
> 6.5?  (I want to use some of the features not in 6.3.x)
> 
> -------------------------------------
> 
> On another matter, version numbers.  What would every one think of numbers
> where to 2nd number being odd or even denotes development or stable
> respectively? like with the Linux kernel.

Not in your wildest dreams...that has been asked over and over again ove
the past few years, and I veto it each and every time...we follow the *BSD
development model, not the Linux one...

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org