Next stable version of Samba.

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Williams [mailto:steve at genie96.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 3:21 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: Re: Next stable version of Samba.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just a small thought...
> 
> How does this fit into some of the Paper publications out there?
> 
> I have the O'Reilly "Using Samba" book, and in it there is a 
> paragraph that states (page 186):
> 
> "You will need to use at least Samba 2.1 to ensure that PDC 
> functionality for Windows NT clients is present..."

So, uhm, how did the Samba Team let this go out?  To the best of my
knowledge, there has never been an officially released "Samba 2.1", so it
seems that it's kind of a strange statement.  

> If the new version makes that an invalid statement, then I'd be
> concerned about "newbies" out there having problems..even after
> they have RTFM'd!!

Hmm, definately a strange can of worms.  The O'Reilly page says that it's
officially adopted by the Samba Team, so I guess that there is or was an
official Samba 2.1.  If it's referring to the "HEAD" branch in Samba, it
seems a bit strange that they would have published it with a version number
instead.
	Grego

> 
> 
> my $0.02
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> >         I'd like to ask to make a version number change
> > for the next stable release. Currently we're planning to
> > release something we're planning to call 2.0.8.
> > 
> > However, what I'm actually busyly creating in the CVS tree
> > is HEAD minus vfs and dfs and some of the TNG mods.
> > 
> > This is a very big change to call 2.0.8, which implies a
> > minor rev. on 2.0.7.
> > 
> > Now I still want to ship this code as the next release,
> > as it is *significantly* better than what otherwise would
> > be in 2.0.8. I will go into more details on the changes
> > in a later email, but this code is *definately* more robust
> > and correct from an SMB standpoint than the 2.0.x code.
> > 
> > But I'd like to call it 2.2.0 instead. That way people
> > know this is a more significant change, and will hopefully
> > do more testing before slotting this into a production
> > system.
> > 
> > Currently I have buy off from the rest of the Samba Team
> > on this version change, what does everyone else think ? 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 	Jeremy Allison,
> > 	Samba Team.
> > 
> > -- 
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> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 	Steve Williams, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
> 	Genie Computer Systems Inc.
> 	steve at genie96.com
> 
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