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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!main.put.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: When is 2.2R due out? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 35 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <DqynLn.84G@news2.new-york.net> References: <4lgt27$rme@church.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <4ljdbg$ng0@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DqI2w3.DyI@news2.new-york.net> <31844830.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <DqoIwz.2KC@news2.new-york.net> <31881834.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <DqtDK3.91G@news2.new-york.net> <318C4CA8.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> X-Trace: 831347193/5420 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 01:46:35 GMT Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: : Louis Epstein wrote: : > But they do seem indicators of progress toward a release version. : : They are *also* that, yes. : : : > Well,the cited date for 2.2 makes it look like it will be out so soon after : > 2.1.1 that one wonders if slippage for 2.1.1 will make it D.O.A. : : Well, please do understand that 2.2 != 2.1. If you were to upgrade a : production machine running 2.1-RELEASE to 2.2, rather than 2.1.1, then : I'd say that was a somewhat risky move and a gratuitous one at that. We : don't make releases along the 2.1 branch (which started with 2.0.5, : actually) for fun - they're actually a significant degree of extra work. : We make them so that those who want *only* the most significant bug and : security fix changes, no insufficently tested or experimental features, : can get them. Those who wish to live out on the edge will always run : 2.2.something, and 2.1 is largely irrelevant. I run an ISP and would not welcome anything causing downtime,so I am more interested in what is stable.But isn't something fully stable when it reaches a RELEASE version?My point is that the expected dates of 2.1.1R and 2.2R seem to be within a few months of each other. Are you in fact expecting to maintain separate release versions of both 2.1.x and 2.2.x branches with only the former being stable?Or will 2.2 be the stable branch when its release version comes out? (Closest thing I can think of,and not at the OS level,is that--under Novell,not sure if it's the same under Corel--you could get Wordperfect 5.1+ for DOS for less capable computers,though the "current" version of WPDOS is now 6.1,which replaced 6.0c,etc while 5.1+ remained the "stable" version for older/cheaper hardware).