Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 03:23:14AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > >I wonder where this representation of "epoch" as a "stigma" comes from. >They're a part of a version number. They're as much a stigma as the "57" >in "libavcodec57". What's the big deal? Just use it if you need to, and >be done with it. > >There's really really really nothing wrong with using an epoch. If some >of our (or someone else's) infrastructure has issues dealing with them, >then that's a bug in the infrastructure and we should fix it. But nobody >should be afraid of using an epoch when the upstream version number >changes incompatibly, because *that's what they're for*.
That's exactly my thought, yes. It's just a version number... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray