Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:52:37 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: The naming wars continue... |
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On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 06:08:12PM -0700, alan wrote: > 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.
I've got a good page or so of compare function in ketchup already, I'm loathe to teach it about -final though.
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