On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:00:51AM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote:
> 
> Matthew Toseland writes:
> > 
> > Yup. Build 500 had a combinatorial explosion of announcements (within
> > the node). Build 501 largely fixed this. Build 502 fixed another nasty.
> > Build 503 will be out later today, and will fix the remaining behaviour.
> 
> ... I'm going to agree with Ian on this one: build number is getting abused.
> Perhaps change a date on version.java and use the CVS version for 'minor 
> tweaks'
> or just announce the time you made the change and what snapshot it's in.
> 
> For .5, can we add a patchlevel to the protocol version that represents
> higher-level things like routing/caching decisions?  At .5, it's likely that
These ARE routing level decisions, or I wouldn't have increased the
buildnum.
> someone will implement a non-fred version of the daemon, so we don't want to
> be bumping our 'compatability' number for fixing memory leaks.
> 
> The 'check for newer version' can check the node-name (FRED or C-freenet or
> whatever) for it's own name + build, and protocol rev for anyone's server.
We want a different mechanism for 0.5, since the buildver can be spoofed
by any dumb node op, sure.
> 
> It's of minor importance, but something to think about for .5
> 
> --Dan
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