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

Hi All, Jonathan is of course correct, but I just wanted to make one slight adjustment. For whatevere reasons, the powers that be decided that a PID would be marked with a W. Thus the latest PID available for 10.00.FC6 is W5. Product would be branded 10.00.FC6W5. I kinda of wish it were a P. ----- Original Message ---- From: Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@earthlink.net> To: informix-list@iiug.org Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 11:48:23 PM Subject: 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/ _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list