From 95ca8d543f798ceea3e853ff7fa2e603f20c3906 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robb Matzke <matzke@llnl.gov>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:40:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [svn-r849] ./doc/html/Version.html 	Added comment about
 rewinding the version number to 1.0 for 	the initial release.

---
 doc/html/Version.html | 32 +++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/html/Version.html b/doc/html/Version.html
index abc55158ce..d465d041db 100644
--- a/doc/html/Version.html
+++ b/doc/html/Version.html
@@ -58,16 +58,19 @@
       not concerned about providing bug fixes separate from normal
       development for the beta version.
 
-    <p>Version 1.2 will be the first official HDF5 version.  The
-      version tree will fork at this point with public bug fixes
-      provided on the 1.2 branch and development will continue on the
-      1.3 branch.
+    <p>After the beta release we rolled back the version number so the
+      first release is version 1.0 and development will continue on
+      version 1.1. We felt that an initial version of 1.0 was more
+      important than continuing to increment the pre-release version
+      numbers.
 
     <h2>4. Public versus Development</h2>
 
     <p>The motivation for separate public and development versions is
       that the public version will receive only bug fixes while the
-      development version will receive new features.
+      development version will receive new features.  This also allows 
+      us to release bug fixes expediently without waiting for the
+      development version to reach a stable state.
 
     <p>Eventually, the development version will near completion and a
       new development branch will fork while the original one enters a 
@@ -121,23 +124,14 @@
 	an error message on the standard error stream and aborts.
     </dl>
 
-<!--
-    <hr>
-    <address><a href="mailto:matzke@llnl.gov">Robb Matzke</a></address>
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+<hr>
+<address><a href="mailto:hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu">HDF Help Desk</a></address>
+<br>
+
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-Last modified: Mon Jul 20 11:42:20 EDT 1998
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+Last modified: Fri Oct 30 10:32:50 EST 1998
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-<hr>
-<address>
-<a href="mailto:hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu">HDF Help Desk</a>
-
-<br>
-Last modified:  3 September 1998
-
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 </html>