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Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: requiring "make major" was annoying, for a "minor"
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: requiring "make major" was annoying, for a "minor" release. |
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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:58:37 -0600 |
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According to Jim Meyering on 10/1/2009 2:11 AM:
> Maybe I'm the only one who uses "make major"
> or who has been bothered about the semantic mismatch
> in doing so for a so-called "minor" (yet stable) release.
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> I debated whether to keep "major" for a transition period,
> but I don't think that would be worthwhile.
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> Any objection?
Looks good to me. I feel like there are two reasonable sets of release
naming conventions, which convey slightly different meanings:
major minor patch
stable beta alpha
and your patch gets rid of the mixing of two different notions.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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