Josh Boyer wrote: > 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? :) I did, and I plan to roll a release this weekend. - Josh Triplett
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