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

S.Çağlar Onur caglar at 10ur.org
Thu Sep 26 17:10:24 UTC 2013


Hi,


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Dwight Engen <dwight.engen at oracle.com>wrote:

> 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.


Got it. Thanks for the feedback...


>  > (And if we do change format, I'd only start doing it with alpha2 to
> >  avoid some extra confusion)
> >
>
>
Best,
-- 
S.Çağlar Onur <caglar at 10ur.org>
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