Re: HEADS-UP new statfs structure

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 02:45:57PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > 
> > > For 6.0, can we start off libc at libc.so.YYYYMMDD and move it
> > > back to libc.so.6 for the first release?  That way we can bump
> > > it whenever we want to avoid the "bumpy" rides for -current
> > > folk.
> > 
> > This is a great idea!
> 
> Provided that we
> 1. keep the major number to allow concurrent development of different
>    (major) library versions, and
> 2. replace the date with a convenient sequence number, which we can
>    call the minor version number, and
> 3. Do not reset the version number when we release.
> 
> E.g.: libc.so.6.0, libc.so.6.1, and (first release) libc.so.6.2...

I don't care so much about naming conventions.  It would just be
nice to be able to bump the version in development as often as
you like without usurping release version ids (major or minor).
You can still use minor numbers while still not throwing some away:

	6.0 Branch - libc.so.6.1000
	    libc bump - libc.so.6.1001
	    libc bump - libc.so.6.1002
	6.0-Release - libc.so.6.0
	    libc bump - libc.so.6.1003
	6.1-Release - libc.so.6.1
	...

-- 
Dan Eischen