cvs-cur

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Welcome to the new ctm-users mailing list.  I thought I would get a discussion 
going by discussing an issue we will face in about nine months time.  cvs-cur 
goes through about 100 deltas per month, which indicates that the current 
numbering system is going to run out in about nine months.

There are several ways to overcome this - for example, to change to a five digit 
numbering system.  However, the quick and dirty method I am currently thinking 
of using is to simply restart the numbering.  This would mean that everyone 
would have to delete the old cvs-cur directory, and completely restart with a 
cvs-cur.0100xEmpty.gz.  This will be a recurring problem, but only every 8 years 
or so.

On the other hand, one of the writers of the original software has suggested 
that he might rewrite it to accomodate a 5 digit numbering system.

Best, Stephen


-- 
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen at math.missouri.edu
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen