From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: new release? From: andrey mirtchovski In-Reply-To: <200402252054.i1PKsxi6088476@adat.davidashen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:22:50 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f58b4730-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 the way i see it: "not really alive, not completely dead yet" describes it reasonably well. the version numbers won't change because updating via the replica at sources.cs.bell-labs takes care of daily patches and trivial updates. it has the ability to take care of major updates too, so perhaps there will never be a next plan9 release (think flow vs discrete events). the only time i heard 'R5' mentioned was to commemorate the switch to fossil + the OSI-approved license, and to reorganize the tree so that things brought in under a different license (ghostscript) are clearly visible outside of the main Plan 9 tree (at least that's what i understood from the directory tree on sources.cs). sweeping changes in Plan 9 happen very rarely in my opinion (R3, venti+fossil and 9P2000 were the ones that have happen in my lifetime as a 9fan). to add to what ron said, people have mentioned on the list running binaries from 1995 without problems on the latest p9 installations... andrey