> > Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > > Well, the "version 2" prefix is kind of already taken by > > > Sascha Hauers alternative implementation. > > > > > > Should we go for 2.x.x anyway?
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:47:22AM -0500, Ken Fuchs wrote: > > May I suggest CC.YY.MM? > > > > VERSION = <Century number> > > PATCHLEVEL = <Year number> > > SUBLEVEL = <Month number> > > EXTRAVERSION = <NULL> or <special purpose> > > > > So this month's release number would become 20.08.08. Scott Wood wrote: > Why the extra dot after the century? That looks like August > 20th, 2008 in certain date formats. All such date formats that list smaller units (days) before larger units (months or years) such that they don't sort properly are deprecated. > And no ability to release more than once a month? The EXTRAVERSION preprocessor symbol can be defined to allow a new release every picosecond, or more often, if necessary. > Of course, we *could* base the version number on RFC 2550... :-) To solve the Y10K, Y100K, Y1M, ... problems, the "CC" in "CC.YY.MM" shall be defined to be as long as necessary. ------ OK, reserving VERSION for <Century number> may not be such a good idea after all. Here's another suggestion that most may agree with: VERSION = <Year number = 2008..10**30-1> PATCHLEVEL = <Month number = 1..12> SUBLEVEL = <Day number = 1..31> EXTRAVERSION = <NULL> or <special purpose> A release on the opening day of the Olympics would be: 2008.08.08 Sincerely, Ken Fuchs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
