On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:49:19AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
>
> I *suppose* you could come up with some scheme for alpha/beta/gamma if you
> allowed negative integers in the tuple. Maybe something like this:
>
> version:
> integer = {$1}
> | version "." integer = {$1,$3}
> | version "pl" integer = {$1.0.$3}
> | version "rc" integer = {$1,-1,$3}
> | version gamma integer = {$1,-2,$3}
> | version beta integer = {$1,-3,$3}
> | version alpha integer = {$1,-4,$3}
> | version "rc" = {$1,-1,0}
> | version gamma = {$1,-2,0}
> | version beta = {$1,-3,0}
> | version alpha = {$1,-4,0}
>
> gamma: "gamma" // Not sure if this should even be accepted, and nuts to
> delta.
> beta: "b" | "beta"
> alpha: "a" | "alpha"
>
On the other hand, the guys at OpenBSD seem to consider their version
identifier as a number. It is incremented by 0.1 every six month.
So, the difference between OpenBSD 4.0, released Nov 1, 2006 and OpenBSD
3.9 released May 1, 2006 is... 6 months. And that's pretty much all you
can infer from that.
--
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
The greatest monster of them all is ignorance.
(Moral to Pal'n Drumm Story in Groo #89 (Epic))
