[vorbis] ogg dates - (curious)

[Greg Wooledge]

Beni Cherniavksy (cben at techunix.technion.ac.il) wrote:

> They do?  Can someone of the developers confirm this?  What exactly
> changed between the version?  IIRC it was said that the encoder wasn't
> affected but the tools were.  So, should the file(1) magic call 1217 files
> as some pre-RC3?

The patch I already sent to the file(1) maintainer uses "pre-RC3 CVS"
as the string.

Here's the gory bits:

# Map to beta version numbers:
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          <20000508       (<beta1 - prepublic)
# The string has not changed from beta1 to 2 - they are indistinguishable.
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          20000508        (beta1/2)
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          >20000508
>>>>>>>(84.b+120)       string          <20001031       (beta2-3)
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          20001031        (beta3)
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          >20001031
>>>>>>>(84.b+120)       string          <20010225       (beta3-4)
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          20010225        (beta4)
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          >20010225
>>>>>>>(84.b+120)       string          <20010615       (beta4-RC1)
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          20010615        (RC1)
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          20010813        (RC2)
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          20010816        (RC2 - Garf tuned v1)
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          20011014        (RC2 - Garf tuned v2)
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          20011217        (pre-RC3 CVS)
>>>>>>(84.b+120)        string          20011231        (RC3)


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