Warren's Package Naming Proposal - Revision 2

[Peter Backlund]

Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> 
> 
>>>It's possible that one project does it like above, and another
>>>does it like:
>>>
>>>	   Release: 2.8
>>>	Prerelease: 2.8pre1   (Prerelease of version 2.9)
>>
>>Could you give me an example of this? (Imho this scheme is
>>braindamaged...) I've never seen any projects with this versioning.
> 
> 
> The Linux kernel.  kernel-2.6.0testN
> 
> There are tonnes of projects that do this however, so I'm kindof 
> surprised if you've never seen any.  Do you use the GNU hurd 
> kernel perhaps?  ;o)

Not the same thing, this scenario was about using "2.6.0test1" as 
version number for something leading up to 2.7.0, which I've never seen 
either. The kernel method or using 2.6.0testX leading up to 2.6.0 is 
however very common.

/Peter