[Mesa-dev] Move mesa version scheme to a more common style ?

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Fri Nov 14 08:41:17 PST 2014


Hi,

On 14 November 2014 15:07, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Are there any objections if I move to the above format starting with
> > mesa 10.4-rc1 ? I would appreciate any feedback over the next 2-3 days,
> > and based on it I'll tag the first RC.
>
> Shouldn't it be the other way around? IMO we should have strong
> arguments for *changing* it, rather than keep going as-is... Any
> change can break something, so only changes that have clear benefits
> should be done, no?
>
> AFAICT, the current scheme conveys more relevant, obvious information
> than the proposed one, namely that it's a release *candidate* for
> v10.4.1. If no blocking issues are found, it'll become the *actual*
> release...


You can encode that in the versions too. The other advantage is especially
when checking for dependencies, that you have a linear version comparison.

Cheers,
Daniel
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