Re: Version numbering

2003-09-29 Thread Paul Jarc
Daniel Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Several GNU projects (including GCC) do leave off .0's for anything past the > minor number, so it seems ls -v can't be the final authority :/ It does not follow that this numbering scheme is a good one. I would argue that it isn't. The gcc maintainers se

Re: Version numbering

2003-09-29 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-09-29T22:50+0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: ) planning to make 2.2 < 2.3a < 2.3. That would be counter ) intuitive. IMHO any numbering scheme ought to work with `ls -v'. ls ls -v ls -rt naim-0.11.5.1.tar.gz naim-0.11.5.1.tar.gz

Re: Version numbering

2003-09-29 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "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

Re: Version numbering

2003-09-29 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 04:51 pm, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I think when we branch for a release (say the upcoming 1.6), version numbers in the branch should continue to be "1.6.?", but that the trunk should bump its minor number to make it cl

.lo files

2003-09-29 Thread alain . bonnefoy
I'm trying to build php-4.3.3. I did as for many other packages (libxml2, libxslt, libiconv, zlib, etc.) but it seems there is something different here concerning the way it links the application. configure is ok, make is ok until link process. the command is: #> libtool --silent --preserve-d

Re: Version numbering

2003-09-29 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I think when we branch for a release (say the upcoming 1.6), version numbers in the branch should continue to be "1.6.?", but that the trunk should bump its minor number to make it clear the trunk is very different to the stable branch: "1.7?". We would of course continu

Re: Version numbering

2003-09-29 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > I think when we branch for a release (say the upcoming 1.6), version numbers > in the branch should continue to be "1.6.?", but that the trunk > should bump its minor number to make it clear the trunk is very different to > the stable branch: "1.7?".

Version numbering

2003-09-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
I am considering changing the version numbering scheme we use for alpha releases of libtool, which are currently a source of much confusion. The release rules in Makefile.am, and the release procedure documented in README-alpha are all that will need updating. I think when we branch for a rele

Re: only static libraries created

2003-09-29 Thread Bernhard Rumpler
Tor Lillqvist wrote: I have found that to ensure a mixture of Cygwin-based tools (for instance shell scripts that run under a Cygwin shell, or Cygwin Perl scripts) and native (mingw) tools interoperate reliably one needs to make sure that the same paths are valid (and point to the same files) in bo

Re: [kaffe] Re: dotnet platform support / gnu config.sub (long)

2003-09-29 Thread Stephen Crawley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Sun has a lot of lawyers, and they've been pretty aggressive than most > about staking their claims on the linguistic turf (so they can sell it > off). That's a rather twisted interpretation of Sun's use of trademarks, IMO. Another way of interpreting this is that Sun is

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:36:13AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > Actually if it was branch-1-5 you were testing, that'd be the new 1.5.0a > (1.5.1) release. 1.5b would be on HEAD (as far as I understand the > esoteric version numbering upstream use) and a pre-release of > libtool 1.6 (which

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 20:46, Robert Millan wrote: > The libtool upstream maintainers are preparing a new 1.5b release. On their > behalf I've recently attempted to test a snapshot from CVS branch-1-5 on all > architectures Debian supports (or pretends to support) that I had access to. > Actually

libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-29 Thread Robert Millan
[ CCing to debian maintainer and libtool upstream ] Hi there folks. The libtool upstream maintainers are preparing a new 1.5b release. On their behalf I've recently attempted to test a snapshot from CVS branch-1-5 on all architectures Debian supports (or pretends to support) that I had access to

Re: [kaffe] Re: dotnet platform support / gnu config.sub (long)

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Haley
Stephen Crawley writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Sun has a lot of lawyers, and they've been pretty aggressive than most > > about staking their claims on the linguistic turf (so they can sell it > > off). > > That's a rather twisted interpretation of Sun's use of trademarks, IMO. >