2016-03-21 The definition, character and use of releases in contrast to patches is common in the free software world. It is not at all in some businesses. There sometimes a sacred treatment of releases leads to the use of patches in cases when one would want to have releases, because the latter ones are identifiable and con- sistent, the former are not, they lead to a mess of unidentifi- able versions out in the wild. In many respects, free software is so much more advanced. http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke