Re: [libvirt] Re: [Qemu-devel] Changing the QEMU svn VERSION string

[Anthony Liguori]

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>   
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:52:46AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >     
> > > I think that's going to lead to even more confusion.  While I'm inclined
> > > to not greatly mind 0.10.99 for the development tree, when we do release
> > > candidates for the next release, it's going to be 0.11.0-rc1.  I don't
> > > expect RPMs to ever be created from non-release versions of QEMU provided
> > > we stick to our plan of frequent releases.
> > >       
> > FWIW, GDB uses 6.8.50 (devel branch), 6.8.90 (release branch), 6.8.91
> > (rc1).  That's worked out well for us.
> >     
>
> I like this one.
>   

So do I.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> I'm extremely sceptical of anything that claims to need a fine grained version 
> number. In practice version numbers for open source projects are fairly 
> arbitrary and meaningless because almost everyone has their own set of 
> patches and backported fixes anyway.
>
> Paul
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