Re: PID - Post-Interim Drop (was: Informix 10 permissions problem?)

natebsi@gmail.com wrote: > I spoke with Informix. [...] It may be fixed in the latest "pit > drop"(sp? not familiar with that term, but he said it was like a > service pack) or in FC7. A PID is a post-interim drop, also redundantly called a PID-drop. It will have a version number such as 10.00.xC5P1 (where I think the letter is indeed P, but there is some capital letter used, followed by a number - and the letter is not X which would be a patch release - one-off for a specific customer.). A PID has a collection of fixes and some minimal level of QA, and the changes are expected to be rolled into the next interim (eg 10.00.xC6 for a 10.00.xC5P1). PIDs are generated quite frequently - like about every month. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2007.0226 -- http://dbi.perl.org/

Jonathan Leffler wrote: > natebsi@gmail.com wrote: >> I spoke with Informix. [...] It may be fixed in the latest "pit >> drop"(sp? not familiar with that term, but he said it was like a >> service pack) or in FC7. > > A PID is a post-interim drop, also redundantly called a PID-drop. > > It will have a version number such as 10.00.xC5P1 (where I think the > letter is indeed P, but there is some capital letter used, followed by a > number - and the letter is not X which would be a patch release - > one-off for a specific customer.). > > A PID has a collection of fixes and some minimal level of QA, and the > changes are expected to be rolled into the next interim (eg 10.00.xC6 > for a 10.00.xC5P1). PIDs are generated quite frequently - like about > every month. > > > 10.00.FC6W5 is the latest PID 10.00.FC6X1 is a patch port 10.00.FC6 is a vanilla interim 10.00.FC6W5X1 is a specific patch port on top of a PID 10.00.FC6W5D2 is a diagnostic