[ntp:hackers] Post 4.2.8 Release Number Scheme

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Tue Dec 31 16:22:26 UTC 2013


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:08:04AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
>   2) The proliferation of beta and rc is awkward.  The scheme described
>   looks locally made up, and there are no examples.  The problem is that
>   these designations have to be machine-parseable to sort, which means
>   that large numbers of packaging systems have to implement code to
>   recognize and sort these designators.  I would suggest
> 
>      5.2.0b1
>      5.2.0b2
>      5.2.0b3
>      5.2.0rc1
>      5.2.0rc2
>      5.2.0
> 
>   in order, to do the same thing as many others.  (Really, I would
>   recommend the ancient GNU scheme of
> 
>      5.2.0.80
>      5.2.0.81
>      5.2.0.82
>      5.2.0.90
>      5.2.0.91
>      5.2.0

I hope there is some error in that somewhere, since to me it looks
like the last number goes back.


Kurt



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