Re: What's this p2 business?

Friday, 21 May 1999

        ...
>>>> "dv" == Didier Verna
<verna(a)inf.enst.fr&gt; writes: 
dv> sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:

...
> The problem is that there's no universal definition among
software
> packages of what distinguishes a patch from a beta release from an
> alpha release from a major from a minor version. 
dv>         Well, at least patchlevels should be only bug fixes of releases
dv> considered stable and distributed as such.

Well, but nothing holds us to that requirement, and I'm not going to
sign any papers saying that we'll only fix bug.  We may very well
*introduce* bugs, for all we know.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Chipsy
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

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