Numbering for cvs-cur

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <3EDBA820.8070703 at math.missouri.edu>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith write
s:
>Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>A while back, someone (I forget who) suggested that I simply try the 
>software out to see what would happen when the 4 digits run out for 
>numbering the cvs-cur deltas.  Well, I am happy to report that the 
>programs seem to seemlessly switch to 5 digits.  You should see this 
>happen with cvs-cur sometime at the end of this year.  The change should 
>be largely transparent.  (If a problem should later arise, I will deal 
>with it then, probably by restarting at 100.)

You guys have _no_ idea how amazed I am that this would ever become
an issue :-)

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