Paul Brook wrote: > I'm extremely sceptical of anything that claims to need a fine > grained version number. In practice version numbers for open source > projects are fairly arbitrary and meaningless because almost > everyone has their own set of patches and backported fixes anyway.
I find it's needed onlyh when you need to interact with a program and workaround bugs or temporarily broken features, and also when the program gives no other way to determine its features. For some reason, I find kernels are the main thing this matters for... If the help text, some other output, or an API gives enough information for interacting programs to know what to do, that's much better and works with arbitrary patches etc. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
