On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:05:45PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> >http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/#nr-scheme-changes
> 
> It has happened, and that's that.
> I think it's unfortunate.
> 
> Previously we had:
> 1.6 - the base for the 1.6 branch.
> 1.6<letter> - further development from 1.6 to whatever next release was.
>               (minor or major)
> 1.6.<digit> - official releases with fixes on the 1.6 branch.
> 
> If code needed some system service that was implemented first in 1.6, they 
> could easily check if __NetBSD_Version__ > 106000000, and it worked, even 
> if you happened to running -current.
> 
> Now, all of a sudden, if you are running current, you're basically shot. 
> You'll have 299rrpp00, while when 2.1 comes out, it will have 201rrpp00. 
> Yet, 2.1 might very well have stuff that -current of today don't have.

no, because 2.1 will be a patch release of 2.0, just like 1.6.1 was a patch
release of 1.6. There will never be a 201rrpp00 for current, the next current
will ne 399rrpp00

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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