[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] [ANNOUNCE] Mailman 2.0 beta 1

Ralf Hildebrandt R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de
Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:55:48 +0100


On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:53:49PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> 
> I've just uploaded the Mailman 2.0 beta 1 tarball to www.list.org.  I

You know what really bugs me: It's called mailman.tar.gz

Why on earth can't you just encode the version in the name like everybody
does -- I mean, the subdir is called mailman-2.0beta1, why not call the
binary mailman-2.0beta1.tar.gz then?

> decided to name the new version "2.0" because of the architectural
> changes that have been made.  See the excerpt from the NEWS file below
> for details of what's changed since version 1.1.

What happened to 1.2 ? I've got 1.1 installed, updated via CVS to
mailman-1.2b1 and now we have 2.0 ? =:)

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