>> >> now numbering is clear - numbers with letters are development versions,
>> >> without - release versions. it's clear
>> >
>> >Wasn't there a 1.4.3A release? I don't quite recall.
>> 
>> there's mention of something called 1.4.3A in the cvs logs, but i
>> think that was just something that led up to the actual 1.4.3 release.
>> 1.4.3A was, in all likelihood, just a "beta" of 1.4.3.
>  
>Check the RCS log for "sys/include/param.h,v".
>
>----------------------------
>revision 1.56.2.6
>date: 2000/12/13 23:49:07;  author: he;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
>Apply patch (requested by he):
>  Bump visible version number to 1.4.3A, to indicate that we're
>  no longer exactly at 1.4.3.
>  Here: bump to 1.4.4, since format doesn't allow 1.4.3A.
>----------------------------

right, so 1.4.3A was the thing in between 1.4.3 and (what would have
been) 1.4.4.

>> >> after that change it won't be IMHO better but will look like linux
>> >
>> >C'mon. If an idea is a good idea then who cares where it came from?
>> >I think it is a perfectly fine idea. It may even nicely fit into
>> >__NetBSD_Version__ in sys/param.h. The current system would have
>> >broken if we had a 1.4.4 release.
>> 
>> how so?  that would 104000400, no?
>
>Same file. Here's the diff:
>
>1c1
>< /*    $NetBSD: param.h,v 1.56.2.4 1999/12/20 21:35:51 he Exp $        */
>---
>> /*    $NetBSD: param.h,v 1.56.2.5 2000/07/01 18:02:32 he Exp $        */
>68c68
>< #define __NetBSD_Version__  104000300 /* NetBSD 1.4.3 */
>---
>> #define __NetBSD_Version__  104000400 /* NetBSD 1.4.3 */
>
>So if 1.4.3 was 104000300 and 1.4.3A was 104000400, what would 1.4.4
>have been?

so...if 104000400 is actually 1.4.3A, then we just skip 1.4.4 and go
straight to 1.4.5, no?  sort of a moot point, really, since i don't
expect a 1.4.4 release.  it's "two major versions" behind the head, so
it's technically not maintained.  afaik.

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