On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 11 August 2011 05:25, Michael Hope <michael.h...@linaro.org> wrote: >> Hi there. This is a heads-up that the name of the Toolchain group >> releases will change slightly with next weeks release. We're dropping >> the respin suffix (the -0) to line up with the new whole of Linaro >> naming convention. > > So I still don't really understand what the rationale for this > change is. It's got some obvious disadvantages, in that it breaks > compatibility with the previous releases, and means that respins are > a different name format from initial releases (which is a good way > to ensure that they're not handled properly by peoples' scripts). > And as Andrew pointed out it means that filenames for an initial > and -1 release lexically sort in the wrong order.
Yip. They sort correctly according to the Debian version rules though. > If we want consistency across Linaro surely the right way to achieve > that would be for the people who started doing monthly releases after > toolchain to follow the pattern toolchain adopted... > >> qemu-linaro-0.15-2011.xx-0.tar.bz2 I said the same initially but came around to the new format. It's shorter, cleaner[1], and ties in with the milestone names better. As the whole of Linaro was switching to monthly then it was as good a time as any to change. > Actually qemu-linaro-0.15.50-2011.xx-0.tar.gz > (the .50 is upstream's convention for "based off qemu git trunk > somewhere after 0.15 branched, not an actual qemu release" -- > qemu-linaro will continue to track trunk even after upstream's > recent 0.15 release.) Ta. Updated. -- Michael _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
