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Re: Bump mainline version number


On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:43:25PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 07:19:52PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> >> Hi Zack,
> >> 
> >> > http://www.panix.com/~zackw/exbib/2002/June/20#1445
> >> > http://www.panix.com/~zackw/exbib/2002/June/30#1150
> >
> > Hmm, the trouble with Zack's position is that we have people making
> > releases from the development branch, eg. HJ's linux binutils.
> 
> HJ's releases should be distinguished by *name* and have a totally
> separate version number:
> "binutils-linux 1.3 (based on binutils 2.15 20030504)"
> Yes, it really should print all that text on --version.

I don't like this version scheme. You can't tell which version of
the binutils the Linux binutils is based on from its tarball.

> 
> (It's not clear to me why he is still doing his releases when 2.14.0
> works just fine on linux, but that's a separate issue.)

I want a released 2.14 for Linux today, not N weeks from now.


H.J.


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