Hi, On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Derek Fountain wrote:
I am sorry, but do you expect us to put it on the CDs without any previous testing and integration?
Like you did with XFree4.0?
Hmm, 4.0 is out for quite a while already.
Actually no, my point was that you've made a jump to 7.0 which seems too early to me. From what I've read this one should be 6.5; the next one, with the new kernel and new desktop should be 7.0.
Personally, I agree - but as I mentioned, this scheme was made up at a time where the situation looked different. But hey, it's just a number :)
Well, I guess that answers my question, although I'd point out that KDE2 hasn't been delayed at all yet. They've hit every milestone just about spot on.
OK, then I will just take the kernel as an example for timing :)
I have to bow to your knowledge about how much effort goes into making up versioning schemes, but I'm still rather cynical about it. Renaming to 7.0 just seems like a marketing ploy to make this look like a worthwhile upgrade. I see Redhat have done the same. Perhaps it's all to catch up with Mandrake, now at v7.1? It'll be a sad day for Linux when the distributors start trying to pull these sorts of tricks on their customers just to sell pointless upgrades.
Fully agreed.
P.S. On a slightly different note, can we assume that from your quote above that 7.0 will have XFree4.0 as its default window manager?
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