Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 2004.0 Profile Deprecated

[John Davis <zhen@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 21:08, Jason Huebel wrote:
> On Thursday 12 August 2004 7:52 pm, John Davis wrote:
> > I like the major versioning, but do we really need the minor versions? I
> > see that as a throwback to what we are doing now. The reason that I want
> > to drop release-based versioning is to avoid the needless replication of
> > data since the profiles between same year releases are so similar.
> >
> > BTW - we really should start a GLEP about this ;)
> 
> Well, it's not that we have minor versions.  Frankly there may be years where 
> the first major version is all we need.  But specifying that a revision 
> number is the accepted minor version would simply eliminate confusion.  I 
> don't see how we could get away from some type of minor version, considering 
> we had one significant profile change this year when we moved to xorg-x11.  I 
> know that amd64 is planning to have at least one more significant change when 
> we move to gcc 3.4 in 2004.3.
> 
> As far as the GLEP, I think we should finish hashing it out here, then write 
> it up. :-) This is a very constructive discussion so far. We could decide to 
> write the GLEP when things digress. ;-)
> 
> So, I still think using the year as the major version, with a revision number 
> as the minor version (only for -r1 or greater) is a good way to go.  But 
> you're the head releng dude, so it's up to you.  But I think we should at 
> least get away from using .1, .2, etc in the profiles.

I can do with a revision number as the minor version, as long as it is
the exception, not the rule ;) I agree as well that we should get away
from the .x stuff.

I am fine with the proposal that we have and am ready to GLEP it if
there are no further comments.

Thanks for the constructive discussion :)

Cheers,
-- 
John Davis
Gentoo Linux Developer
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>

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