From: Christian Hoenig <list@hoenig.cc>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] naming scheme
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:13:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409162313.41074.list@hoenig.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040916225004.250a588f@andy.genone.homeip.net>
On Thursday 16 September 2004 22:50, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > > > Why is portage using such a strange naming scheme? Why are we
> > > > only increasing ´build numbers´? As this seems to be a major
> > > > release, why don´t we make a 2.1 out of it?
> > >
> > > I don't think this is a "major" release as in "major version" but
> > > more as in "big deal". From what I've heard, a major version change
> > > will be reserved for a complete rewrite of Portage.
> >
> > You mean, it needs a complete rewrite for a 2.1?
> > If thats the case, why don´t we simply drop the ´2´? ;-)
>
> 3.x will be a complete rewrite.
> 2.1 will bring structural changes to vardb and the new API
Ah, OK, thanks for the info :-)
take care, have fun
/christian
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-16 18:08 [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage .51 features Sven Vermeulen
2004-09-16 19:57 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] naming scheme (was: Portage .51 features) Christian Hoenig
2004-09-16 20:03 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] naming scheme Andrew Gaffney
2004-09-16 20:08 ` Michael Stewart
2004-09-16 20:30 ` Andrew Gaffney
2004-09-16 20:09 ` Christian Hoenig
2004-09-16 20:50 ` Marius Mauch
2004-09-16 20:51 ` Anthony Gorecki
2004-09-16 21:07 ` Marius Mauch
2004-09-19 22:05 ` Roman Gaufman
2004-09-16 21:13 ` Christian Hoenig [this message]
2004-09-17 8:46 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage .51 features Sven Vermeulen
2004-09-17 11:27 ` Jason Stubbs
2004-09-18 11:56 ` Sven Vermeulen
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