Version numbering [LWN.net]

Version numbering

Posted Aug 14, 2004 14:18 UTC (Sat) by mk270 (guest, #4485)
Parent article: Kernels 2.6.8, 2.6.8.1 released

Pity - it would have been nice to have kept the version numbering textually constistent, and called it 2.6.9, to avoid breaking any code which made assumptions about the format of the version string.

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Version numbering

Posted Aug 14, 2004 15:18 UTC (Sat) by Gunner (subscriber, #1448) [Link]

They already considered that, but Linus thought it was about time:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/225784

Version numbering

Posted Aug 14, 2004 17:55 UTC (Sat) by nosnilmot (subscriber, #746) [Link]

From Linus' email:

Will it break automated scripts? Maybe. But on the other hand, we'll never even find out unless we try it some time.

It looks like it did break someone's "script" :)

Version numbering

Posted Aug 14, 2004 15:20 UTC (Sat) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

The reports on last month's Kernel Summit made clear that this sort of
numbering was coming.

Version numbering

Posted Aug 15, 2004 4:11 UTC (Sun) by jmayer (subscriber, #595) [Link]

Looks like I missed that part. Can you please post a link?

Version numbering

Posted Aug 15, 2004 6:40 UTC (Sun) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Looks like it was in the post-Summit discussion on linux-kernel.
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3522