Hi!
On Feb 25, 2009, at 1:50 AM, Eric Herman wrote:
It doesn't address Stewart's concern you to determine "intended
stable at a glance" and issues with bzr rev numbers have already
been discussed.
The bzr rev numbers are stable by policy. Each incoming set of commits
go to trunk as a unit. So our numbers are stable.
For me I really like this because someone can say "I am having a
problem with 893", and I can just:
bzr branch -r 893
I can see exactly what they have, and I don't have to be concerned
about trying to relate back tags (which are crummy pieces of meta data).
As far as major.minor numbers go... I am not much of a fan of them
either.... though they work really well for this system if we branch
off for versions in the future. AKA Drizzle is mainline and
distributions are built around patched versions of our main branch.
Oh... and revision numbers are entirely free of marketing. It is a
statement of fact, not of opinion. Things like "10.3" or "alpha,...",
are marketing statements. Which is a'ok for distributions.... but that
is a business that the core I believe should stay out of (and for that
matter binary releases...).
Cheers,
-Brian
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