From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: Official releases? Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:08:24 -0500 Message-ID: <20061031170824.GC23354@redhat.com> References: <1162307025.11613.1.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:41640 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423715AbWJaR5g (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:57:36 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1162307025.11613.1.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Josh Boyer Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:03:45AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm just curious if anyone is ever really going to do an "official" > release of sparse. We've got daily snapshots provided by Dave Jones, > and git of course, but will an official release tarball with shiny > version numbers and everything be created? > > The only reason I ask is because it makes packaging sparse a bit easier > to some degree. Well, all you need from a version number is a monotonically increasing number right? You could munge the daily snapshot dates into same. It's not as 'pretty' as a real version number, but it works with minimal effort on behalf of Linus. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk