Glenn Skinner wrote:
[snip]
> > ## Part 1.1: Update of ksh93
> > The 1.1 portion of this project is the update of ksh93 from
> > ast-ksh.2007-12-15 to ast-ksh-2008-05-22 which marks the update
> > from ksh93 version 's+' to version 't-' (AST/ksh93 uses the
> > (latin) alphabet for its version number, e.g.  version 'a',
> > version 'b' etc.  ; the '+'/'-' means the stabilty status, e.g.
> > '-' means its "alpha", no suffix means its "stable" (e.g.  ready
> > for production usage) and '+' means its a bugfixed stable version
> > etc.).
> 
> Are we to infer from this nomenclature description that ksh's
> stability level is decreasing as part of this case?

No, the '+'/''/'-' stuff refers to the upstream version we're using, not
the ARC stabilty level (and see my other email about the tests we use to
gurantee that the "alpha" version of ksh93 is stable enougth for
production usage).

----

Bye,
Roland

-- 
  __ .  . __
 (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
  \__\/\/__/  MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer
  /O /==\ O\  TEL +49 641 7950090
 (;O/ \/ \O;)


Reply via email to