[Mesa-maintainers] [Mesa-dev] Proposal of date-based Mesa versioning for 2017

[Matt Turner]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>  * Should we drop the $VERSION directory in the URL, since it causes a
> fair bit of nuisance during RC stage.
> Namely from:
> https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/$VERSION/mesa-$VERSION.tar.{xz,gz}
> to:
> https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/mesa-$VERSION.tar.{xz,gz}

Yes please. I've never found this to be anything but a minor anoyance.