William Schumann wrote:
> Dave Miner wrote:
>> William Schumann wrote:
>>> Sundar Yamunachari wrote:
>>>> My usage of Major, Minor and Micro release doesn't conform the 
>>>> Solaris definitions. Even though OpenSolaris is not going to follow 
>>>> Solaris 10 update model, I am giving an example from Solaris 10. If 
>>>> the system has  Solaris 10 update 2 build 6 (may be beta), how will 
>>>> you represent this release?
>>> For this, I propose:
>>> MICROREV=<microrev> (optional)
>>> and
>>> FULL_VERSION=VERSION.REV[.MICROREV]
>>> where <microrev>  is <micro revision number>[a | b | ...]
>>>
>>> Your example would be FULL_VERSION=10.2.6b
>>>
>> How is that different than the BUILD_ID?
> An example of the build ID would be 'snv79a'.  Internally at Sun, build 
> ID is what is currently used to refer to versions.  At this point, it's 
> just a different convention for representing the same notion as in 
> FULL_VERSION.  Perhaps BUILD_ID could be dropped, but some people might 
> still like to see it. 

In the example above, you converted Sundar's build number to a 
micro-revision, so I'm not understanding what the difference is.

Dave

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