Re: What's this p2 business?

Thursday, 20 May 1999

        Didier Verna <verna(a)inf.enst.fr&gt; writes:

...
 Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; writes:

 > The difference is that there is now a way in the version number to
 > distinguish different lines of development. However that doesn't mean
 > there is a difference from  the way we differentiated between bug fix
 > releases before. 

         Yeah, now go and explain this to our users ... :-/ 
Introducing a third number this late into program's development is the 
path to disaster.

Remember that the original reason Emacs 1.2 became Emacs 12 was
because Stallman said he didn't need a third number.

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