Re: [MiNT] MiNT1.17 Changes

[David Gálvez <dgalvez75@gmail.com>]

2010/12/28 Helmut Karlowski <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>:
> =?iso-8859-15?q?Jean-Fran=E7ois?= Lemaire wrote:
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>> > > is the 1st official stable release of FreeMiNT for years.
>> >=20
>> > Why that?
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>> Because the previous one (1.15.12) was in 2000, I do call that years. Don't=
>> =20
>> you?
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> The previous release (though not really stable) was 1.16, in 2004 or so.
> But there is no rule to only release every 5 years, could be 5 weeks as well.
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I think he means that the 1.16.x were published as beta, they weren't
stable releases.
Note that there are 3 status in the sources: CVS, BETA or RELEASE

http://sparemint.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/freemint/sys/buildinfo/version.h?rev=1.8&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=beta-1_16_0

> -Helmut
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