From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14955 invoked from network); 22 Dec 1996 03:06:41 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 22 Dec 1996 03:06:41 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA12587; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 22:06:42 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 22:06:42 -0500 (EST) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199612220303.EAA04009@hzoli.ppp.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: Default option settings To: coleman@math.gatech.edu (Richard Coleman) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 04:03:49 +0100 (MET) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199612211629.LAA25243@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> from Richard Coleman at "Dec 21, 96 11:29:16 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"F2q4r.0.c43.1NAlo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2609 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > Also, Zoltan, I noticed you named the new beta as just zsh-3.1.0. > You should probably call it something like zsh-3.1-beta1, or put > it in a testing subdirectory. I expect plenty of people will not > realize it's a beta version. Many people will not see that it's > symlink'ed to zsh-beta and install it as a production version. The beta status is mentioned at the very beginning of the README and in the announcement. The 3.1.0 version number has several advantages: 1. it is easier to parse from a script 2. it is now identical to the RCS branch revision number 3. it is compatible with the Linux version numbering :-) I can rename the tar.gz distribution to something like zsh-3.1.1-beta.tar.gz and leave the ZSH_VERSION variable as 3.1.1. > (We all know there are plenty of incompetent sysadmins out there). Yes, unfortunately :-((. I know several Unix sysadmins who do not know even the very basics of Unix. But these sysadmins rarely try to install zsh. And even if they install, zsh-3.1.0 should be quite stable without --enable-dynamic (it's not the default for exactly this reason). Zoltan