Subject: Re: Why commands in the source tree don't have version?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 02/14/2001 13:36:19
> > Not for me.  I prefer simpler using dot only scheme, feeling some
> > consistency with pkgsrc's version shceme.
> 
> The pkgsrc's versioning scheme now uses 'nbX' for (important) NetBSD
> specific changes like security patches. That is, "digits & dots" are
> insufficient for pkgsrc.

Err, I'm not against for '1.7.0.x' if it's sure that the base version
(the version of NetBSD itself) never uses the 4th element. But this
means that the first three elements and the 4th have respective
dimensions...

Masao