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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Hey guys, calm down, I meant "naming wars" in a silly kind of way, not the > nasty kind. > > The fact is, Linux naming has always sucked. Well, at least the versioning > I've used. Others tend to be more organized. Me, I'm the "artistic" type, > so I sometimes try to do something new, and invariably stupid. > > The best suggestion so far has been to _just_ use another number, which > makes sense considering my dislike for both -rc and -pre. > > However, for some reason four numbers just looks visually too obnoxious to > me, so as I don't care that much, I'll just use "-rc", and we can all > agree that it stands for "Ridiculous Count" rather than "Release > Candidate". > > More importantly, maybe we could all realize that it isn't actually that > big of an issue ;) Besides... -pre and -rc additions do not sort correctly unless your sort routine has special cases to take care of it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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