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From(H. Peter Anvin)
SubjectRe: The naming wars continue...
DateTue, 26 Oct 2004 06:37:08 +0000 (UTC)
Followup to:  <20041025232654.GC30574@thundrix.ch>
By author: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Salut,
>
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:33:33PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > Yes - lets stick to fewer numbers. They can count faster, instead
> > of having a long string of them. I hope linux doesn't
> > end up like X. "X11R6.8.1" The "X" itself is a counter, although
> > it is understandable if it never increments to "Y". But
> > that "11" doesn't change much, and then there are three more numbers. :-/
>
> X11 is the name of the protocol: the X Protocol, version 11, as
> released by the MIT. There was an X10.
>

There also were a W, and and X1, X2, ... X11.

However, there is a tendency for numbers to get stuck (witness Linux
2.x). In particular, X11R6 got encoded in many places including
pathnames for no good reason. Under the pre-R6 naming schemes we'd
had R7 a long time ago.

-hpa
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