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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers? |
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Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:03:40 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Zack Brown <address@hidden>
> It's starting to make sense now. It seems like you really do intend
> there to be a clear relationship between the project version number, and
> the tla version number. It's just that the tla version number refers to
> a whole sweep of project version numbers. So tla version 1.0 would
> contain project versions 1.0.1, 1.0.2, etc.
Yes.
Something else that comes into play here, which I've used in the past
but don't happen to recently, are the `--seal' and `--fix' options to
commit. So you could, if you wanted, have the convention that:
project--mainline--X.Y--version-0
(created with --seal) corresponds to release:
project-X.Y
and:
project--mainline--X.Y--versionfix-Z
(created with --fix) corresponds to release:
project-X.Y.Z
But there's way too much flexability in the system to require that
isomorphism. You can use config names to map from release names to
versions. You can use N-component version numbers. You can throw
tags into the mix...
It's a cataloging system, as in what libraries use (but sans the
dictionary of pre-defined terms which, currently, would at most
contain the keyword "devo" when used as a branch label). As a
cataloging system -- it just goes half-way from "unstructured" to
"cataloged", relying on a cultural context to evolve and meet it
halfway.
Ask me about how I'd do a GNU/linux distribution using arch sometime.
(And, for a most-likely-dissenting opinion, ask asuffield.) The
issue I mean is: how to make thousands of separately developed
packages managable en-masse with the smallest amount of labor and the
largest amount of power.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?, (continued)
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?, Andrew Suffield, 2003/09/10
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?, Zack Brown, 2003/09/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?, Zack Brown, 2003/09/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?, Zack Brown, 2003/09/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?, Tom Lord, 2003/09/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/11
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/11
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: What are version numbers?, Miles Bader, 2003/09/10
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: What are version numbers?, Tom Lord, 2003/09/10
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: What are version numbers?, Miles Bader, 2003/09/10
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: What are version numbers?, Zack Brown, 2003/09/11