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    SubjectRe: The naming wars continue...
    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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