Re: readme-alpha option and .90 pretests

2003-06-14 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
[Moved from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Karl> Hello Alexandre and all, Karl> rms has decreed that pretest version numbers, say for a Karl> forthcoming version 4.6, should have the form 4.5.90, or Karl> the form 4.6.MMDD. See the Test Releases no

Re: readme-alpha option and .90 pretests

2003-06-17 Thread Karl Berry
comes from the Gnits standards. There is no such thing as "Gnits standards". I was/am a founding member of "gnits" (which was just a few friends talking informally), and I can state this authoritatively :). Before automake existed, there were various autoconf/installation/etc. conventions th

Re: readme-alpha option and .90 pretests

2003-06-18 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Karl Berry wrote: > comes from the Gnits standards. > There is no such thing as "Gnits standards". I was/am a founding member > of "gnits" (which was just a few friends talking informally), and I can > state this authoritatively :). Perhaps you should tell the people behin

Re: readme-alpha option and .90 pretests

2003-06-18 Thread Karl Berry
Perhaps you should tell the people behind: The "gnit-picker gang", like I said, was a few friends, not an official group of any kind. I was one of them. http://www.amath.washington.edu/~lf/tutorials/autoconf/gnits/gnits.html Ah. It's been enough years that I'd forgotten that François