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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: RELENG?
Date: 6 Jun 1997 10:18:10 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5n3tan$hbb$1@mark.ucdavis.edu>,
greg@trefoil.bogs.org (Greg Shenaut) writes:
> Brian Somers (brian@shift.utell.net) wrote:
>: In article <5n1ft6$mk3$1@mark.ucdavis.edu>,
>: greg@trefoil.bogs.org (Greg Shenaut) writes:
>: > I am ashamed to reveal my ignorance, but what does RELENG
>: > stand for?
>
>: I would suspect "Release Engine".
>
> "Release Engine"????? Perhaps that is so, but in that case my
> ignorance is even more shameful than I previously thought, because
> I now must ask, What is a "Release Engine"? (BTW, how is it
> pronounced? If it stands for "Release Engine", perhaps it would
> be pronounced "relenj"--I've been saying it to rhyme more or less
> with "a fling".)
Well, Jordan just answered the question - he's about as authorative
as they come :)
I suspected that (for example) RELENG_2_2 was the tag name for
"Release Engine 2.2". The "Release Engine" being the rather
mind-numbing Makefile in /usr/src/release.
This says that the tag name is based on what will use that tag
rather than what is built from the files with that tag.
>: Shouldn't this be on the "acronyms" thread ? ;P
>
> I considered that, but didn't post it there because I didn't want
> to see what other people *guessed* it was--I can guess myself--I
> was hoping that someone who actually knew where the term came from
> would answer.
Hah ! You didn't get away from my guessing !
> -Greg
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !