John Plocher wrote: > Glenn Skinner wrote: >> (latin) alphabet for its version number, e.g. version 'a', >> version 'b' etc. ; the '+'/'-' means the stabilty status, e.g. >> '-' means its "alpha", no suffix means its "stable" (e.g. ready >> for production usage) and '+' means its a bugfixed stable version >> etc.). >> >> Are we to infer from this nomenclature description that ksh's >> stability level is decreasing as part of this case? > > I think there may be a definition overload here: > > stability(ARC) => interface evolution over time > -vs- > stability(AST/KSH) => quality and bug levels > > I don't believe the interface taxonomy stability levels > are changing at all, but the implied "quality of the release" > metric is. > > -John Right. Its like the common even/odd release numbers commonly used in FOSS. One such community using this convention is Gnome. We simply don't integrate odd number releases of Gnome.
- jek3
