From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-10-03T15:33:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Release compatibility/train

Hi,

In message "Re: Release compatibility/train"
    on Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:28:26 +0900, Prashant Srinivasan <Prashant.Srinivasan@Sun.COM> writes:

| Can this be elaborated on please . . .
|
|Are you saying that 1.9 (aka 1.9.0) will be a development version, and 
|that 1.9.1 will be a stable release?
|
|(or to put it another way, that 1.9.0 will be a development version, and 
|1.9.x where x > 0 will be stable releases?).

Yes, the versioning scheme has been changed since 1.9, to utilize the
limited resource of digits.  By this scheme, we can keep up to 100
years without using non-digits.  ;-)

							matz.