[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-sysadm] [496] update version in Makefile

Thu Feb 10 19:57:08 CET 2011

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Maarten Vanraes
+<maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Op donderdag 10 februari 2011 10:34:48 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+>> Le jeudi 10 février 2011 10:15:59, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+>> > On 9 February 2011 21:52,  <root at mageia.org> wrote:
+>> > > update version in Makefile
+>> > >
+>> > > Modified Paths
+>> > >
+>> > > drakx/trunk/advertising/Makefile
+>> > >
+>> > > Modified: drakx/trunk/advertising/Makefile
+>> > > ===================================================================
+>> > > --- drakx/trunk/advertising/Makefile      2011-02-09 20:24:08 UTC (rev 495)
+>> > > +++ drakx/trunk/advertising/Makefile      2011-02-09 20:52:01 UTC (rev 496)
+>> > > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+>> > > -VERSION = 2011.0
+>> > > +VERSION = 1
+>> > >
+>> > >  PRODUCT = drakx-installer-advertising
+>> >
+>> > I don't know if that has already been discussed somewhere (at least
+>> > I didn't remember it), since the "year.month" scheme is widely used
+>> > (mandriva, ubuntu, phoronix, ...), why not stick with it?
+>> >
+>> > on the other hand, "traditionnal" versioning is used by FC, Debian so
+>> > I don't have strong opinion about any of these.
+>> > WDYT?
+>>
+>> I saw no public discussion about it (maybe in a meeting for which I didn't
+>> read the logs). I like having the year in release version, but I infered
+>> from what I saw that version 1 seems to be what has been chosen. However,
+>> that may be to late to discuss since the alpha is due in 5 days from now.
+>>
+>> Samuel
+>
+> i was under the opinion that people said "Release 1" as a temporary measure,
+> until the discussion had been settled...
+>
+> i too prefer the year in the release, makes it easier to remember.
+>
+
+i hardly see how this is easier to remember.
+I really like the way fedora does F14, F15, ...
+
+
+but this is just my opinion :)
+