Subject: Re: Solaris 10 and pkgsrc
To: Magnus Eriksson <magetoo@fastmail.fm>
From: matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/05/2005 09:04:00
I differences from 1.6 to 2.0 are, in my opinion, justifying the version ch=
ange.

I think it's possible that the project is simply moving faster than it
was previously, so we can be more aggressive with release engineering.

On 10/5/05, Magnus Eriksson <magetoo@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Johan A.van Zanten wrote:
>
> > Then, in about 1997 or 1998, some bright marketeer at Sun decided that
> > going from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 2.7 was not impressive enough, so the=
y
> > went to Solaris 7. And now they bump that number with every
> > release. (sigh)
>
> Sort of the same as with NetBSD recently then?  *ducking, running*
>
>
>   (I still haven't decided if it's going to be worth the trouble upgradin=
g
> from 1.6, other than on x86.  And now there's both a version 2.1 and a
> version 3 coming out soon?!)
>
>
> MAgnus
>
>