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Linux 3.0?Linux 3.0?Posted Sep 4, 2008 15:30 UTC (Thu) by stijn (subscriber, #570)In reply to: Linux 3.0? by jengelh Parent article: Linux 3.0?
Whoever said anything about truncating? I've just chosen to arbitrarily set the starting point to 2000 -- it is a new epoch. I am pretty sure I'll never make releases in the year 507. If somehow people decide to stick my version tag in a 6-byte field, that is not my problem. Come the year 2100, I'll happily release (very happily I should say, if still around and able) version 100-152.
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Linux 3.0? Posted Sep 4, 2008 19:33 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
well, then why not use 1900 as the epoc (date already does this and returns 108 for this year)
it ends up being confusing.
and you are always free to truncate the version number yourself. think of vehicle model years, you refer to the 2008 model as the oh-eight model and everyone knows what you are referring to, but if you referred to things as the 8 model most people would take a few seconds to figure out what you are talking about.
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