Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:41:59 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: silby@silby.com Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, itetcu@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cognet@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: __FreeBSD_version was: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys _timeval.h user.h src/sys/arm/include _types.h Message-ID: <20060819.214159.1723235838.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060819200148.S952@odysseus.silby.com> References: <20060624115603.25c962bc@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20060624.162505.1678771172.imp@bsdimp.com> <20060819200148.S952@odysseus.silby.com>
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Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> writes:
:
: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:
:
: > : I don't believe you should relay on being the only user.
: > : At least please bump __FreeBSD_version.
: >
: > I'm pretty sure that he is the only FreeBSD/arm user that's using
: > RELENG_6 :-). We're using current at work, but will soon transition
: > to RELENG_6, now that these patches have been MFC'd. Of course, it
: > wouldn't hurt to at least document this change in the sequence of
: > version bumps on the 6.x timeline. But the number of people affected
: > can be counted on one hand, with fingers left over.
: >
: > Warner
:
: Maybe this has been discussed in the past, but why don't we just have
: __FreeBSD_version auto-incremented every day? It would be great for
: situations where we currently use it, and it's also be great for bug
: reports.
That's been discussed to death, but you can't use the results of
'date' to do it, and it causes horrible repo churn if you commit a
change like this every day to multiple branches. In short, it sounds
good, but when you go to actually implement you discover that it
really is lame.
Warner
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