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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mk: show version as a decimal integer
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 23:09:55 +0200
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2016-03-24 22:26, Thomas Monjalon:
> In order to ease packaging support of changes in DPDK build system,
> introduce a decimal integer to compare version numbers.
> It does not show the minor numbers as it is not meaningful for packaging.
> 
> Usage for DPDK 16.04:
> % make showversionum
> 1604
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>

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