Ewwww! I'd rather not go back to "beta9 SP2" etc naming scheme. The next FreeDOS should _not_ be a "FreeDOS 1.0 SP1". The next FreeDOS is indeed an incremental improvement with no major changes (i.e. updated packages, etc) then "FreeDOS 1.1" would be acceptable. A larger jump in functionality could be "FreeDOS 1.5" .. and if the changes are big enough, "FreeDOS 2.0". Let's avoid "1.0.1" kind of naming unless it's a bug-fix release right after the main release of the distro.
-jh Tony wrote: > Well, to be like our more refined OS counterpart (MacOS), there was > typically a 3-6 month update cycle (the longest I remember was 9 > months)...hence the 7.5, 7.5.1, 7.5.2, 7.5.3, etc.... > > Or, we could go the Microsoft route...issue a big patch file that updates > and fixes based using a patch program (I remember PATCH.EXE being included > at one time with DOS, perhaps that was only a Tandy thing, go > figure)...thereby offering existing users a download of diffs (so to speak) > that PATCH runs against the affected files thereby bringing them to current > status... > > So in effect, FreeDOS 1.0 Build xxxx SP1, etc, etc....and so forth.... > > Oh, another thing I thought about, did you ever notice the time on DOS files > (specifically from Microsoft)? > > The time after version 4.0 (if I remember correctly) always reflected the > DOS version. When I was younger, I wondered what idiot was up at 5:00am > compiling DOS 5.0 and how he managed to compile all those files in 60 secs. > (Thank God for TOUCH.COM)... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
