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

[Emil Velikov]

On 15/11/14 17:50, Marek Olšák wrote:
> I've always found the X.Org versioning scheme unintuitive. This is
> actually for the first time after ~5 years of contributing to open
> source graphics that I finally understand how the X versioning works.
> Granted, I had never been interested in it anyway.
> 
I take we all have our strengths and weaknesses. Must admit that it took
me ~5 seconds to get the idea, even without having a comprehensive list,
or reading the web page.

> If you need to have a web page on x.org that explains it, that alone
> is an indication that it's too complicated.
> 
Just because something is documented it does not mean that it's too
complicated for the technically educated mind. One can see plenty of
examples on the net - "How to rename a file in WindowsXP" :)

-Emil