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)

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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.

Now would be a great time to move to it, as it has already been discused
to use 6.4.x as the "stable" version, the current development version is
6.5, so when it is ready it could be released as 6.6.0

Tanks and have a great day
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Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:46:42 -0500 (EST)
Terry Mackintosh <terry@terrym.com>
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 


Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:58:14 -0400 (AST)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: [HACKERS] 6.4.3? and version numbers
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> 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...

Even though I'm in the Linux camp, I agree with Marc. I'd think it would
cause a lot of confusion to us developers trying to keep track of more
than one source tree.

Even my own development projects follow the PostgreSQL (aka BSD) model, as
to my mind it's the easiest to maintain.

Peter

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Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:18:24 +0000 (GMT)
Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
Re: [HACKERS] 6.4.3? and version numbers
Thus spake The Hermit Hacker
> > 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...

Besides, we never have anything but stable releases anyway, right?  :-)

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Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:59:32 -0500 (EST)
"D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net>
Re: [HACKERS] 6.4.3? and version numbers