Subject: Re: detecting -current versions
To: Brian R. Gaeke <brg@dgate.org>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@andrews.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 09/03/1995 15:37:42
> This would be really cool. I like this idea even better than giving each
> day's sup a date-based version... heck, some of those aren't even usable.
> But would this not violate core's policy of not giving out old sources
> to 'just anyone(TM)'? Or might the rules be bent a little bit?

My -current is very stable.. :-)  I haven't supped the last few days
because sun-lamp is unavailable, but Friday's sup works.
There is no need to get old sources from core if you base it on -current
as of right now.  Or is there some weird instability I don't know about?
My -current box is serving root/swap for a Sun-3/60 and a Sun-4/110,
plus running X, make build, mSQL, apache, etc..  

> virtually, (retch, retch -- better name for this. "Interim"?)
> -Brian

Well NetBSD 1.0i1 or NetBSD 1.0I1 could be confusing.  How about
using "pre-release" with 'NetBSD 1.0p1' or something?
(I know, could be considered 'patch-level 1' I suppose)

-Andrew
PS.  I would think that anything done would need to be blessed by core.
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