spellberg_robert writes:
> do fbsd project_people consider the right_most digit[s] to be
> a "minor_version number",
> a "patch_level" or
> something_else ?
A minor version number. The complete nomenclature for a release is
.-RELEASE[-p], where the last part is omitted until
a patch is a
i understand about limited resources forcing the number down.
that is not my point.
this may be a semantics game, but, in general,
do fbsd project_people consider the right_most digit[s] to be
a "minor_version number",
a "patch_level" or
something_else ?
the answer may help clarify my
spellberg_robert writes:
> if version "x dot y_plus_one" is "better" [ for some definition of
> that word ] than version "x dot y", then why is support for the
> "better" version being terminated, by --design--, before support for
> the "less_than_better" version ?
It is a simple matter of resour
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On 08/06/2010 15:43:30, spellberg_robert wrote:
> question:
> if version "x dot y_plus_one" is "better" [ for some definition of
> that word ] than version "x dot y",
> then why is support for the "better" version being terminated, by
> --design--,
greetings ---
i am putting this on _chat because it is more than a "question" and it has a tinge of
"advocacy".
let me say, straight_away, that i am not making any allegations or accusations;
i am attempting to reason this through, deductively, and i am making little
head_way.
question:
