[lxc-devel] [minor] Changing the version naming

[Dwight Engen]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:57:02 -0400
Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 05:48:26PM -0400, S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > It's not that important but I just wanted to learn your thoughts
> > about starting to use more predictable version names for releases.
> > I was trying to do some stuff based on the LXC version that is
> > installed on the system and realized that current naming is little
> > different than what I was expecting.
> > 
> > Do you think something like following (and also starting to use
> > http://semver.org/ kind of naming) is acceptable?
> > 
> > diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> > index a523583..f466a43 100644
> > --- a/configure.ac
> > +++ b/configure.ac
> > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> >  #                                               -*- Autoconf -*-
> >  # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
> > 
> > -AC_INIT([lxc], [1.0.0.alpha1])
> > +AC_INIT([lxc], [1.0.0-alpha1])
> > 
> >  AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([configure.ac])
> >  AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([config])
> > 
> > Best,
> 
> It doesn't really matter to me or to any of the Debian based distros,
> but I seem to remember the version number being a problem to the RPM
> based distros in the past, so I'd rather not change the format unless
> we first make sure it's going to work with everyone's packaging.

Yeah using the dash was a problem for RPM, see commit 0b531758.

> (And if we do change format, I'd only start doing it with alpha2 to
>  avoid some extra confusion)
>