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Version handling in binutils
- From: Christian Jönsson <c dot christian dot joensson at telia dot com>
- To: Binutils <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:06:48 +0100
- Subject: Version handling in binutils
I still am a little bit confused of how we handle versions on
binutils.
I have previosly, and still does, advocated that we could use someting
like this for a version string:
"2.13 20020303 (experimental)"
as an example for today's main branch
"2.12 20020303 (prerelease)"
as an example for today's 2.12 branch
once 2.12 is released, I'd suggest
"2.12"
for its release and then in the 2.12 branch
"2.12.1 20020303 (prerelease)"
but I also see that version strings are a little awkward to start mess
around with. One thing, though, it sure would be great to have these
ones and to use them when running the tests. It sure is great to see
more than just a date when it comes to versions... like the branch for
example.
Any comments?
Cheers,
/ChJ