On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:18:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > back when i first blundered into lynx.dev 9609, '2.6' had just come out. > it had been released too quickly by a frantic Foteos Macrides > & contained many bugs, which required a new version '2.7' c 9702. > subseq'ly, there were versions '2.7.1' & '2.7.2' fairly quickly, then '2.8'. > there were a few 'pre' or 'rc' versions shortly before these releases, > but nothing like the series of 17 (so far) '2.8.5devs'.
Some numbers (there were no "pre" patches until just before 2.8): before 2.8 16 patches 2 months 0.9Mb before 2.8.1 42 patches 7 months 1.0Mb before 2.8.2 39 patches 7 months 1.7Mb before 2.8.3 31 patches 9 months 2.0Mb before 2.8.4 29 patches 15 months 2.2Mb before 2.8.5 16 patches 30+ months 2.8Mb > somehow the numbering system got distorted & has remained so for years. > can we please get it back to sanity? that's all: i leave it to TD. As I've explained a couple of times, I would have preferred to release 2.8.5 late in 2002, but found that I would not get a consensus. Preparing a release takes much more time than preparing a development patch, since (unlike the typical desktop-scrapings SourceForge project), I do check that lynx runs on all of the platforms available to me, has no known serious problems that were introduced since the last release, etc. Lynx development versions are (as more than one person notes) equivalent to the release versions of many other projects. Packagers who are paying attention already know this. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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