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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: next release, when?
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: In article <HAFNER.96Jan7141622@dartpub.augusta.de>,
: Walter 'madhouse' Hafner <hafner@dartpub.augusta.de> wrote:
: >JKH> Hard to say, but there's general plan to try and release 2.2 around
: >JKH> the end of this summer.
: >	 
: >End of summer ... hmmm ... remember the schedule for 2.1? ;-)

: Now you know why I hate it when people ask that question - I'm forced
: to make unrealistic predictions! :-)

: Seriously, the situation we have today is a little different than the
: one we had immediately following 2.0, when we tried to make our 2.1
: time-table.  We were still trying to merge everything directly from -current,
: and this turned into a tracking nightmare of such magnitude that we released
: 2.0.5 as an interim release to try and break the problem into two smaller
: pieces.  Starting with 2.0.5, we finally wised-up and went to a two-track
: release system.  2.1 following 2.0.5 was *significantly* easier, and
: I expect 2.1.1 (or whatever point-release number we give it) will be
: easier still.  It will be released sometime this spring.

Will Walnut Creek CD-ROM have a CD-ROM for subscribers at midyear to keep
up the nominal semi-annual timetable regardless of what the status of
future -RELEASEs is at that time?