mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) (04/12/91)
What the heck kind of a version numbering system is responsible for this: 7.0f2c2? :-) What does that mean? Have there been so many version changes that they started to use hex numbering? :-) Matt -- ___________________________________________________________ Matthew Mora | my Mac Matt_Mora@sri.com SRI International | my unix mxmora@unix.sri.com ___________________________________________________________
klingspo@mozart.cs.colostate.edu (Steve Klingsporn) (04/12/91)
In article <23104@unix.SRI.COM> mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matt Mora) writes: >What the heck kind of a version numbering system is responsible for >this: 7.0f2c2? :-) > >What does that mean? Have there been so many version changes that they >started to use hex numbering? :-) > > > >Matt Actually, Matt, it's not Hex. a= alpha, b=beta, q=quicklook, f=final, c=candidate They're internal numbering schemes. The Software that is being talked about is candidate #2 for System 7.0 final. Steve
nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu) (04/12/91)
In article <23104@unix.SRI.COM> mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matt Mora) writes: >What the heck kind of a version numbering system is responsible for >this: 7.0f2c2? :-) > >What does that mean? Have there been so many version changes that they >started to use hex numbering? :-) > Believe me, these version numbers definitely don't work quite well with the currently existing vers resource. Without going into all the gory details about our build system and our internal version scheme (which this is part of), for each "official" build (such as a9, b1, b4, f1, f2 and so on), we have certain criteria. For a build to be officially accepted by our testers, certain milestones need to be met, or as the case is lately, certain bugs need to be fixed. We make intermediate builds which are candidates (which is where the c comes from) for that version number. So f2c2 is the second candidate build for our second final build. It probably doesn't make too much sense to outsiders (it barely makes sense to me, and I'm the one that's building all these systems) how this scheme works, and that's mostly because no one outside of Apple saw this schme until FC1 and f2c2. It made perfect sense for the alpha and beta builds. Really. -- Dean Yu Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc. Apple Computer, Inc. My opinions and so on and so forth..