Daniel Reed wrote: > On 2003-07-15T23:12-0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > ) >> ) > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > ) >> ) > > url : > http://shell.n.ml.org/n/naim/naim-0.11.5.9.cyg10-cygwinrelease.tar.bz2 ) The > release name is nonstandard, though. cyg11 shouldn't be there. > > That's actually part of the version, 0.11.5.9.cyg11. 0.11 is the > codebase/major number, 5 is the interface/minor number, 9.cyg11 is the > patchlevel (11th Cygwin-specific packaging adjustment since the 10th feature > release). The Cygwin release adds -1, but since naim packages itself, that > will always be -1 unless a Cygwin maintainer does something like changing > the category between me and the mirrors.
So, why not write the version number as 0.11.5.9-11, and not add a redundant -1? Max.
