When will mc-4.6.2 be released?
Roland Illig
roland.illig at gmx.de
Mon Feb 7 21:20:18 UTC 2005
Hi all, especially our project maintainers,
the release of a new MC version is long overdue. Also there has been
some confusion concerning our version numbering scheme, as some
distributions consider a version 4.6.1-pre3 to be higher than 4.6.1.
For these reasons I vote that the current Midnight Commander be released
_this_ _month_, not as mc-4.6.1, but as mc-4.6.2. To avoid repeating
those confusion, we should not announce those many release candidates. I
think the next main releases should be 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, ... with 4.7.1,
4.7.2, ... being the "release candidates".
By the way: NetBSD already has a current Midnight Commander
(4.6.1-pre2b), and although mcslang does not work at all, it was easy to
make it build and run, as there is also a `slang' package.
So don't be too afraid about bugs. Even the Debian people will manage
the "undefined references" from the link editor.
Roland
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