Subject: Re: [ecasound] we need bigger releases!
From: Junichi Uekawa (dancer@netfort.gr.jp)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 18:29:12 EET
In Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:41:34 +0200 (EET) Kai cum veritate scripsit :
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, S. Massy wrote:
>
> > Hm, how about falling back to how most apps are numbered, especially
> > the linux kernel. You know, major/minor/sublevel, where odd minor
> > numbers are for development and even ones for stable releases? Seems
> > much more straightforward to me...
>
> In away we are doing just that. Public (stable) releases will have a
> major.minor.revision version number (ie. 'ecasound-1.9.0.tar.gz' or
> 'ecasound-1.9.tar.gz').
So how are you going to number your development?
Debian seems to count like this:
uekawa:~>dpkgcompareversions 1.9dev1 1.9
1.9dev1 is greater than 1.9
uekawa:~>dpkgcompareversions 1.9dev1 1.9.1
1.9dev1 is less than 1.9.1
uekawa:~>dpkgcompareversions 1.9dev1 1.9.0
1.9dev1 is less than 1.9.0
uekawa:~>dpkgcompareversions 1.9pre1 1.9.0
1.9pre1 is less than 1.9.0
uekawa:~>dpkgcompareversions 1.9.0pre1 1.9.0
1.9.0pre1 is greater than 1.9.0
uekawa:~>dpkgcompareversions 1.9pre1 1.8
1.9pre1 is greater than 1.8
uekawa:~>dpkgcompareversions 1.9pre1 1.8.0
1.9pre1 is greater than 1.8.0
uekawa:~>dpkgcompareversions 1.9pre1 1.8.5d15
1.9pre1 is greater than 1.8.5d15
uekawa:~>dpkgcompareversions 1.9pre1 2.0
1.9pre1 is less than 2.0
uekawa:~>dpkgcompareversions 1.9.0 2.0
1.9.0 is less than 2.0
uekawa:~>dpkgcompareversions 1.9.0 1.10dev0
1.9.0 is less than 1.10dev0
uekawa:~>dpkgcompareversions 1.9.0 1.10dev1
1.9.0 is less than 1.10dev1
regards,
junichi
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