On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:43:23 +0100, Sven Vermeulen
<sven.vermeulen@rug.ac.be> wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:18:02PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> Why not just disguard this sillyness of alphabetic characters in version
>> numbers... Just carry through the same structure used by major/minor:
>> I.e.
>>
>> 2.0.39 < released 2.0.39
>> 2.0.39.1.1 < first development snapshot of the kernel which will eventually
>> be 2.0.40
>> 2.0.39.1.2 < second
>> 2.0.39.1.n < Nth
>> 2.0.39.2.1 < first RC
>> 2.0.39.2.2 < second RC
>> 2.0.39.3.1 < opps! Development went too long and we had to break feature
>> freeze to add important features.
>> 2.0.39.4.1 < Trying to stablize again
>> 2.0.39.4.2 < a few more bugs fixxed
>> 2.0.40 < Looks like 2.0.39.4.2 got it right!
>
>Some people may find this more "logical", but imho most will find it
>confusing... It's already difficult to inform someone about the
>(number).(even|odd).(release)-(patch|pre-final) scheme. I'm more into
> -pre: added some features, bugfixes etc...
> -fc : feature-freeze, only bugfixes
>and having some time (f.i. 48h) between the last -fc and the "real" release
>(without having a single addendum to the ChangeLog).
The bug-fixes only would have to be tightly defined. All of
2.4.0-2.4.15 were bug-fixes in some sense...
john
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