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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers? |
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Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:50:37 +0100 |
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:05:26PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
>
> > 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.
They don't have version numbers.
> > 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.
In this example, the version numbers bear no relationship to the lines
of development - so I set the version field to something arbitrary
("1.0") and ignore it completely. Development here is entirely
orthogonal to the version number.
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- 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
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/11