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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 15:05:26 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:35:12PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> > Why do GCC releases and development lines have version numbers? Or
> > Mozilla, or the linux kernel, or bash, or tla, or (etc.)? It
> > reflects how software is developed and deployed.
> This is false, or at least misleading. It reflects how _some_ software
> is developed and deployed.
> A common counterexample would be config.sub and config.guess.
In what sense are they a counter-example. Sorry -- I just don't
follow you here.
> A slightly more topical one might be the branches in which I store
> debian packaging (which does have a version number, but that version
> number is not related to its development at all - it's related to the
> development of the corresponding _upstream_ code).
To your consumers, isn't that structuring from upstream the critical
thing?
Really not seeing your point here, sorry.
-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, 2003/09/10
- 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