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<para><ulink
- URL="http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html">comp.lang.functional
+ URL="http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html">comp.lang.functional
FAQ</ulink></para>
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<para>Snapshot releases are named
<literal><replaceable>x</replaceable>.<replaceable>y</replaceable>.YYYYMMDD</literal>
- where <literal>y</literal> is <emphasis>odd</emphasis>, and
- <literal>YYYYMMDD</literal> is the date of the sources from
- which the snapshot was built. In theory, you can check out
- the exact same sources from the CVS repository using this
- date.</para>
+ where <literal>YYYYMMDD</literal> is the date of the sources
+ from which the snapshot was built. In theory, you can check
+ out the exact same sources from the CVS repository using
+ this date.</para>
+
+ <para>If <replaceable>y</replaceable> is odd, then this is a
+ snapshot of the CVS HEAD (the main development branch). If
+ <replaceable>y</replaceable> is even, then it is a snapshot
+ of the stable branch between patchlevel releases. For
+ example, <literal>6.3.20040225</literal> would be a snapshot
+ of the HEAD, but <literal>6.2.20040225</literal> would be a
+ snapshot of the <literal>6.2</literal> branch.</para>
<para>The value of <literal>__GLASGOW_HASKELL__</literal>
for a snapshot release is the integer