Subject: Re: Version numbers and features :-)
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: None <skrueger@europe.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/17/2004 20:18:43
> I'm loving this current version numbering: from 1.6Z to 1.6ZK and
> onwards!
Each to their own.
> If we get to 1.6ZZ, will this be the first time we hit the third digit?
AFAIK yes, 1.3K, 1.4ZD, 1.5ZC
> Personally I think it's better to continue on like this if it's
> necessary rather than to make an actual buggy release. :)
did somebody say it'll change?
> At the moment, the only thing that NetBSD needs to make it
> feature-complete for me is:
> in the FS arena:
> .. growable/shrinkable volumes
well, there's freebsds growfs, but as you might guess,
it just can "grow size of an existing ufs file system"
> .. snapshotting
already there, see fss(4)
> .. XFS import
who needs XFS when there's FFS+softupdates :-)
> hardware DRI-style 3d acceleration (via emulated linux modules if
> necessary)
some mails have been floating through tech-x11
but nothing happened so far
> .... and that's pretty much it. Everything else is either already there
> or getting there. :-)
plz add them to http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/roadmap.html ;-)
> Too cool.
indeed
regards,
SK
PS: there's a typo in src/regress/lib/libpthread/cancel2/cancel2.c,
You shoukd -> You should, there's no RCSid too... IIRC
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