On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:36 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: > > 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? > > Since sparse doesn't use any autofoolery, and doesn't include a version number > in the source anywhere, making a release should just require running git tag > and git archive, and putting the resulting tarball up in an official location. > As far as version numbering, it seems reasonable to use the former kernel > versioning system: major.oddeven.revision, starting from something like 0.1.0, > and keeping major version 0 until sparse can comfortably provide some > guarantee of backward compatibility for sparse extensions. Thus, periodic > releases (0.1.1, 0.1.2, ...) wouldn't take much effort at all, and eventually > calling one "stable" (0.2.0, with crash-fixes an similar backported to produce > 0.2.1, 0.2.2, ...) would mostly consist of a judgement call. Great. Did you see Linus' email suggesting that I ask you to do this? :) 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
