[U-Boot-Users] RFC: U-Boot version numbering
Albert ARIBAUD
albert.aribaud at free.fr
Fri Aug 1 19:44:52 CEST 2008
Ben Warren a écrit :
> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> On Aug 1, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to get your general opinion about changing the U-Boot
>>> version numbering scheme.
>>>
>>> To be honest, I never really understood myself how this is supposed
>>> to work and if the next version should be 1.3.4 or 1.4.0 or 2.0.0, i.
>>> e. which changes / additions are important enough to increment the
>>> PATCHLEVEL or even VERSION number.
>>>
>>> I therefor suggest to drop this style of version numbering and change
>>> to a timestamp based version number system which has been quite
>>> successfully used by other projects (like Ubuntu) or is under
>>> discussion (for Linux).
>>>
>>> My suggestion for the new version numbers is as follows:
>>>
>>> VERSION = 1 (at least for the time being)
>>>
>>> PATCHLEVEL = current year - 2000
>>>
>>> SUBLEVEL = current month
>>>
>>> Both PATCHLEVEL and SUBLEVEL shall always be 2 digits (at least for
>>> the next 91+ years to come) so listings for example on an FTP server
>>> shall be in a sane sorting order.
>>>
>>> If we accept this system, the next release which probably comes out
>>> in October 2008 would be v1.08.10, and assuming the one after that
>>> comes out in January 2009 would be named v1.09.01
>>>
>> If we go to date based versions. I'd prefer we keep year as 4 digits:
>>
>> v1.2008.10
>> v1.2009.01
>>
>> It just seems easier to me at a visual level when I look at try and
>> compare versions.
>>
>> - k
>>
> I vote for this one, but starting at v2.
Just one thing: Verson numbering can be anything you want, but I think
it should be self-consistent. And on that account, I realize that the
"v1" part has no real meaning wrt to the rest of the version string,
which date-related -- unless there is a plan to have simultaneous v1 and
v2 releases, in which case it makes sense to have "v1".
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
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