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Re: Version numbering
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Gary V. Vaughan |
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Re: Version numbering |
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Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:15:27 +0100 |
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
"Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
Gary> And that's why people find our version scheme confusing. I'm not sure
Gary> how we ended up working in this way, I think we copied it from
Gary> Automake?
Tsk tsk tsk. Libtool used that scheme first. Automake copied it
when we started to have branches.
Ah, okay. I'm beginning to have a sneaking suspicion I might have invented it
:-/ Silly me!
Gary> Anyhow, I'm fed up of having to explain it, when we could
Gary> just make it intuitive :-)
I didn't understand your proposal, but I hope you are not
planning to make 2.2 < 2.3a < 2.3. That would be counter
intuitive. IMHO any numbering scheme ought to work with `ls -v'.
Actually, that is what I'm proposing: I've had to explain it many, many times
over the years, and people just expect to see alpha/beta releases named after
the final release they are heading towards.
Your point about `ls -v' is a good one though. I'll put an extra `-' before
the letter:
] touch libtool-1.5.tar.gz libtool-1.6a.tar.gz libtool-1.6.tar.gz
] \ls -1 -v
libtool-1.5.tar.gz
libtool-1.6.tar.gz
libtool-1.6a.tar.gz
] mv libtool-1.6a.tar.gz libtool-1.6-a.tar.gz
] \ls -1 -v
libtool-1.5.tar.gz
libtool-1.6-a.tar.gz
libtool-1.6.tar.gz
Cheers,
Gary.
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- Re: Version numbering, (continued)
- Re: Version numbering, Daniel Reed, 2003/09/29
- Re: Version numbering, Paul Jarc, 2003/09/29
- Re: Version numbering, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2003/09/30
- Re: Version numbering, Bernd Jendrissek, 2003/09/30
- RE: Version numbering, Howard Chu, 2003/09/30
- Re: Version numbering, Scott James Remnant, 2003/09/30
- Re: Version numbering, Dalibor Topic, 2003/09/30
- Re: Version numbering, Gary V. Vaughan, 2003/09/30
- Re: Version numbering, Scott James Remnant, 2003/09/30
- Re: Version numbering, Gary V. Vaughan, 2003/09/30
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- Re: Version numbering, Gary V. Vaughan, 2003/09/30
- Re: Version numbering, Scott James Remnant, 2003/09/30
- Re: Version numbering, Earnie Boyd, 2003/09/30
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