On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 03:42:47PM +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > I was asked to answer you that what they had in mind in the > > [epoch].[major].[minor].[release] > that's pretty much a guarantee that the epoch will never change.
> Also, they say that Redhat uses the same versioning scheme for the > kernels they support. > the linux kernel's versioning scheme is an expression of a two-level generational development model. you may have noticed that this was dropped years ago - the major version is fixed at 2.6. and you never had such a model in the first place, and you'll never have. so why would you introduce such a scheme? > Other than that, it's a matter of subjective preferences, I guess. > yes, one can also prefer a versioning scheme which converges towards the value of pi. this isn't necessarily sane or even useful, though. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel