9 messages in com.mysql.lists.mysqlRe: Why don't ISPs use v4
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Ben Edwards31 Mar 2003 08:59 
Mike Brum31 Mar 2003 11:19 
Jeremy Zawodny31 Mar 2003 11:24 
Scott Helms31 Mar 2003 11:32 
Ben Edwards31 Mar 2003 12:20 
Fagyal, Csongor31 Mar 2003 12:23 
Jeremy Zawodny31 Mar 2003 14:09 
Benjamin Pflugmann01 Apr 2003 12:11 
Michael T. Babcock02 Apr 2003 08:03 
Subject:Re: Why don't ISPs use v4
From:Benjamin Pflugmann (benj@pflugmann.de)
Date:04/01/2003 12:11:53 PM
List:com.mysql.lists.mysql

Hi.

On Mon 2003-03-31 at 21:20:25 +0100, be@videonetwork.org wrote:

Sorry everybody. I assumed that as it had been out for a long time (2 years?) it was stable.

It's been 1 1/2 years (Oct 2001). But that was an alpha release. The open development model of MySQL screws numbers a bit. The first beta release was Aug 2002. So in real, it was about 7 month since feature freeze. The release dates are part of

http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/News.html

For more info on the release designation (alpha, beta, gamme, production), have a look at

http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Which_version.html (especially the second half)

HTH,

Benjamin.

-- benj@pflugmann.de