Subject: Re: Why commands in the source tree don't have version?
To: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>
From: Jaromír <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/13/2001 14:21:07
Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> What I though was that, putting a command a "version", we can know
> functionalities provided by the command on the fly.
> 
> And, versioning may be a good incentive for in-source-tree commands'
> developpers. :-)

We have very explicit versioning for each system command
and library:
0.9, 1.0, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2,
1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.5, soon 1.5.1 and 1.6. It's called release number.

I don't think we really need any extra versioning commonly.
Maintaining a 'version' when there is no list what changed
in each version is IMHO quite silly - it gives you no additional
information.

Jaromir
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