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SubjectRe: The naming wars continue...
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 at 18:15:49 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I'm sure you have a well-founded logically consistent self-consistent
>> method of defining what release candidates are; unfortunately hordes of
>> others do, too, and their notions are in turn all subtly inconsistent
>> with yours and each other's, and they're all relatively vocal about them.

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 09:17:52AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Others are arguing about _subtle_ differences; what Linus did was huge
> by comparison. It's as if they were discussing what shade of red to call
> something and Linus came along and declared it green!
> "Release candidate" means candidate for release. Simple and easy to
> understand, no? Does Linus plan on possibly releaseing -rc1 as 2.6.10
> tomorrow? I don't think so...
> I plan to start testing 2.6.10 upon its final release.

Logical consistency can be quantified no further than consistency or
inconsistency. There is no useful notion of degree of such.


-- wli
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