Hi,
Some extra thoughts on the YY.MM format (if you have alternatives, please shoot)
On Jun 11, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Riccardo Murri wrote:
> * 14.05 : current upstream GCC+OpenMPI as of May 2014
Let's consider the above as the low-hanging fruit, for the following reasons:
- Format YY.MM has been popularized by Ubuntu and is a well established practice
- Even Ubuntu, does not claim 100% latest-n-greatest, just a "recent enough
bundle" (*)
- It's not excessively long in characters, which minimizes human error
interference
- Nothing prevents to deviate upon it, as described by RM, towards a YY.MM\.+
namespace!
In short, the question now could become:
** would most sites benefit from "YY.MM" versioning, implying the above?
tia, (will see some of you soon, in person, if in doubt save some questions for
then)
Fotis
(*)
Given that in software "one man's feature is another man's bug", there is no
claim that
XX.YY made by 1 site would be optimal or working for anybody else. But if we
make it
a standard that a "XX.YY" on github repo requires full testing/verification
across
at least 2 HPC sites, IMHO, we will be getting in some worthy situation, quite
soon.
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