Xavier wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
You do realize you just broke openssh version numbering
Here is my vote for the best order: 1.0alpha < 1.0beta < 1.0pre < 1.0rc < 1.0 < 1.0a < 1.0b < 1.0c
I think I just restored the old behavior, what we had before is : 1.0a < 1.0alpha < 1.0b < 1.0beta < 1.0c < 1.0pre < 1.0rc < 1.0
And as far as I can see, it never caused problems to openssh. Both old and new behaviors worked fine with it, because we always had : 4.3p1 < 4.3p2 < 4.4p1
According to the cvs history : http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/core/support/openssh/PKGBUILD?root=core&view=log and the source archives : ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/ the scheme was always X.Y[.Z]pN .
Yeah, poor example... In the v1.2ish era they went 1.2 -> 12.p2 -> 1.2p3 but that was a while ago... A better example is samba :)
Now, maybe 1.0alpha < 1.0beta < 1.0pre < 1.0rc < 1.0 < 1.0a < 1.0b < 1.0c would be better, but we never had this behavior, and implementing would be (much?) more complex than what we have now.
I was really trying to point out that you can't satisfy everyone... But maybe that order is quite good although it would be quite complex. Allan