On Thursday 22 December 2005 18:46, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Wouldn't it make more sense for the maintenance release to be 1.0.1? > > Seconded. letters in versions are bad. With my MacOS background, for me, > > "b" means "beta" :) > FWIW, thirded. The kernel used to use letters too, and it's cute, but just > using multiple levels of release numbers is much more common. Also sucks because letters after numbers a read as "units". Just compare 5h, 3kg, 20cm, 9in, 1.3h Also putting letters after version numbers usally gives me a feeling that the author is not sure about what he does. But this is just me, I guess I hope util-linux is going to learn all that one day :-) Regards Ingo Oeser - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Dec 24 03:13:50 2005
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