On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, M L Riechers wrote:

> As I understand it, in June we were tracking the 1.5 release. 1.4ZB
> would be just before, as, or a little later than 1.5. (We seem to have
> an awful lot of different branches at the moment.  Would someone
> comment, or correct me if I'm wrong?)

That depends on who "we" refers to. :-)

For the record, 1.4ZD was just before the 1.5 branch.

Right now, when NetBSD branches, we take the main development tree and
make a snapshot of it. This will become the release being branched. We
then check in bug fixes and improvements as they come up. So changes from
the main development tree go into the release branch. At some point, we
decide this is good enough, and release the branch.

At the same time, the name reported on the main development branch gets
updated. The branch gets 1.X_ALPHA, and the main tree gets 1.XA, where X
is te release number. So the 1.5 release was 1.5_ALPHA (1.5_ALPHA1 maybe -
I know there's an alpha2) and the development tree was 1.5A. We have now
gotten the main development tree up to 1.5D I think.

If you get your source via sup, right now you are getting the 1.5 release
branch. If you get your source via cvs (or anoncvs), you can get either
the release or -current.

Take care,

Bill