| Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:20:02 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? |
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Or you could just do it like emacs or Solaris and simply use a single number.
No, that would be horrible. The only point of changign the numbering would be to make the numbers smaller. Not fewer. I don't like "26" much as a version number, I'd like "131" even less.
So I'd much rather have something like "2.9.1" than "27", just because it's a hierarchy of simpler numbers.
Linus
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