Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:38:09 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Subject: Re: Proposal on shared libs version values. Message-ID: <200102140138.f1E1c9E14268@billy-club.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:11:47 %2B0900." <3A89A313.4E5B6865@newsguy.com> References: <3A89A313.4E5B6865@newsguy.com> <200102131717.f1DHHNW39519@harmony.village.org> <200102131941.f1DJffU66659@mobile.wemm.org> <20010213130926.A79651@dragon.nuxi.com>
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I like this idea better than 501 and 5.1 formats. If we have to have libc.so.5 for the release, then this gives us name space that we can use (libc.so.5.1 could be used if we *HAD* to bump the major version in the RELENG_5 branch). libc.so.5.1 looks a lot different than libc.so.5.20013013, for example. Of course, I'd really rather not see 5.1 in a release if we can avoid it, but using the date as David suggests gives us this option if we need to use it. In message <3A89A313.4E5B6865@newsguy.com> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: : Keep the date in ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd), otherwise 5-14-Feb-2001 would : get priority over 5-13-Mar-20001. (Unless I skipped this discussion too : much, but the point still kind of stands.) I'd use YYYYMMDD. Short, simple to the point, no locales to worry about. We use it other places in the tree (UPDATING) as well as it being a subset of the widespread YYYYMMDDCC format for named serial numbers so it is well understood by many of the folks that might be running current. It also has the "nice" properties of being monitonically increasing and easy to parse. However, like Peter pointed out earlier today, it just doesn't matter at all what the date we use is. It only matters to humans reading ls listings :-). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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