From: dylanw@demon.net (Dylan O'Donnell)
Subject: Re: Ring of gain constitution?
Date: 14 Feb 2000 00:01:06 +0000


Mike writes:
> 
> what kind of timeframe has there been between an
> inital release and later bug-fix type things in the past?  like, how
> long passed between 3.2.0 and 3.2.1, for instance?

Disclaimer: I wasn't playing at the time. But, derived from
include/patchlevel.h:

3.0.0 1989-07-??
3.0.1 1989-07-31
3.0.2 1989-08-16
3.0.3 1989-09-06
3.0.4 1989-09-27
3.0.5 1989-10-15
3.0.6 1989-11-19
3.0.7 1990-02-19
3.0.8 1990-06-03
3.0.9 1990-06-26
3.0.j 1991-02-05

3.1.0 1993-01-25
3.1.1 1993-02-25
3.1.2 1993-06-01
3.1.3 1993-07-12

3.2.0 1996-04-11
3.2.1 1996-05-28
3.2.2 1996-12-10
3.2.3 1999-12-10

3.3.0 1999-12-10

So, the average time between patches has been increasing (naturally
enough, as the amount of stuff to consider _when_ patching has
increased). 3.0 seems to have used the "lots of little patches"
strategy, while 3.1 and 3.2 (and now 3.3) look to have taken the route
of "collect bugs, then release a patch for all of them at once".

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