[MPlayer-dev-eng] pre8 update

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Fri Apr 21 06:31:13 CEST 2006


On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:06:09AM +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > * Name: there are already some binary packages called pre8, so I propose
> > > to skip it and go to pre9 to avoid confusion.
> > 
> > BTW: we should kick those guys ass. This is exactly the
> > same behaviour that lead to the gcc two dot ninetysix fiasco
> > a few years ago.
> 
> Also we decided to name the next release 1.6.4. 6.4 stands for 2006
> april, and the 1 prefix is there for not incrementing major version one
> to six.

Why is "we"? I am _strongly_ against this!! The same thing was
discussed a year ago and rejected.

Rich




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