release numbers (was: [wplug] CMU installfest this Friday 7th Feb)

[Nick Iglehart]

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>I don't see how this relates to a distribution release number. 
>>Incrementing the major number is a pure marketing decision 

RedHat 8.0 combined the 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 kernels and then compiled
them with gcc 3.2.  If that is not a good reason for a .0 release to
be buggy then I don't know what is.  Even though versioning is often
marketing that does not mean that new versions are not introducing
drastic changes. 

>and (at 
>least in this case, RH7.3 -> RH8.0) doesn't have anything *really*
>that  new, compared to the previous version.

Are you insane?  This is quite possibly the single biggest upgrade
path since 5.2 -> 6.0.  Everything is different.  Menu-driven config,
bluecurve, gcc 3.2, 100% XFree86 4.2.0, etc, etc, etc...

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