Re: Version numbering

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
"Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


[...]

 Gary> And that's why people find our version scheme confusing.  I'm not sure
 Gary> how we ended up working in this way, I think we copied it from
 Gary> Automake?  

Tsk tsk tsk.  Libtool used that scheme first.  Automake copied it
when we started to have branches.
Ah, okay.  I'm beginning to have a sneaking suspicion I might have invented it 
:-/ Silly me!

 Gary> Anyhow, I'm fed up of having to explain it, when we could
 Gary> just make it intuitive :-)
I didn't understand your proposal, but I hope you are not
planning to make 2.2 < 2.3a < 2.3.  That would be counter
intuitive.  IMHO any numbering scheme ought to work with `ls -v'.
Actually, that is what I'm proposing:  I've had to explain it many, many times 
over the years, and people just expect to see alpha/beta releases named after 
the final release they are heading towards.

Your point about `ls -v' is a good one though.  I'll put an extra `-' before 
the letter:

    ] touch libtool-1.5.tar.gz libtool-1.6a.tar.gz libtool-1.6.tar.gz
    ] \ls -1 -v
    libtool-1.5.tar.gz
    libtool-1.6.tar.gz
    libtool-1.6a.tar.gz
    ] mv libtool-1.6a.tar.gz libtool-1.6-a.tar.gz
    ] \ls -1 -v
    libtool-1.5.tar.gz
    libtool-1.6-a.tar.gz
    libtool-1.6.tar.gz
Cheers,
        Gary.
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