On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:08 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:03:45AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I'm just curious if anyone is ever really going to do an "official" > > release of sparse. We've got daily snapshots provided by Dave Jones, > > and git of course, but will an official release tarball with shiny > > version numbers and everything be created? > > > > The only reason I ask is because it makes packaging sparse a bit easier > > to some degree. > > Well, all you need from a version number is a monotonically increasing > number right? You could munge the daily snapshot dates into same. Yes, but you don't keep them all laying around forever. You keep about a week's worth right? So if one were to package say sparse-2006-10-25.tar.gz, it'll disappear in a week. Makes it hard to verify those against the upstream tarball when the tarball no longer exists :). > It's not as 'pretty' as a real version number, but it works with > minimal effort on behalf of Linus. Yeah, I know. It's not a big deal. I was just curious if something like an official release was ever even planned or not. josh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
