From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22383 invoked from network); 28 Jun 1999 10:30:57 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 28 Jun 1999 10:30:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 27808 invoked by alias); 28 Jun 1999 10:30:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6894 Received: (qmail 27801 invoked from network); 28 Jun 1999 10:30:41 -0000 Message-Id: <9906281002.AA40261@ibmth.df.unipi.it> To: "Peter Stephenson" , "Zsh hackers list" Subject: Re: Feature freeze for 3.1.6? RE: pws-24 In-Reply-To: ""Andrej Borsenkow""'s message of "Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:05:17 DFT." <001201bec14d$b93fc7c0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:02:03 +0200 From: Peter Stephenson "Andrej Borsenkow" wrote: > I actually suggest feature freeze for this release. Or it is pretty likely th > at > it will never come out :-0 In my experience, this has turned out to be something of a red herring in the past. The major problems with previous releases haven't been with new features, which tend to evolve anyway as real users get their hands on them, but on necessary improvements to the shell code; simple new features which turn out to be a real benefit (parameters, options, etc.) don't cause any trouble. However, anything major is now certainly going to have to wait. > I really think, that 3.1.6 is at least misleading and something like 4.0.0-pr > e1 > would be much more appropriate. The initial aim of 3.1.x was to implement > modules, and current 3.1.5-pwsNN set has developed far beyond this. You're right that 3.1.5 and 3.1.6 don't look much alike. However, I want 4 to be a non-beta release from the word go (ideally with not many major changes from `3.1.6', but that will depend how things go), and I'd like to stick to the convention that all `proper' releases are just X.Y, with extra tags only for intermediate (non-released) versions. How about something like 3.1.99? or even 3.99? or something? -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +39 050 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy