Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-12 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Wed, 12 May 2021, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote: A side note/gripe here: Traditionally (at least the way I have learned it) you only increment the major version when making a major change to the application - e.g. changing the structure of files saved by the application or perhap

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-12 Thread perditionc
2042 is kernel version 2.42, specifically the kernel build # is major * 1000 + minor which currently equals 2000 + 43 = 2.43 for 0xFD kernels. Note that the kernel releases just have a version number to identify them, whereas development builds should include cvs/svn/git (depending on how old) as

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-12 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
On Monday, May 10, 2021 1:00 PM, Robert Riebisch r...@bttr-software.de wrote: > Hi Mercury, Hello there! > > I'd say we really /do/ need a set standard for versioning. The > > frustration Eric mentioned in his email has hit me once or twice as well > > when combing through archives to compare v