From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-bw0-f49.google.com ([209.85.214.49]) by casper.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1QaCoL-0006LE-Ct for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:17:05 +0000 Received: by bwf12 with SMTP id 12so249109bwf.36 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] prepare new nanddump options, defaults From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Brian Norris Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:15:12 +0300 In-Reply-To: References: <1308761363-16512-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> <1308841377.23597.10.camel@sauron> <1308841503.23597.12.camel@sauron> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <1308946515.13493.32.camel@koala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: David Woodhouse , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Mike Frysinger Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 16:00 -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > If we're going for 2.1 (or some other similarly large jump), maybe we > should do the following: > 1) increment some individual version numbers (nanddump and mtdinfo only?) > 2) make a mtd-utils release 1.4.6 > 3) take care of all the "feature-removal-schedule" stuff... > 4) put the VERSION in the Makefile (still version 1.4.6), have it > generate a header > 5) include that header in common.h > 6) add a stub version function in common.h that would utilize this > basic info to supply a "--version" option to all utilities that don't > have one (at least, as far as reasonable...) > 7) release another mtd-utils, jumping to v2.x (only needing to edit > Makefile for version increments!) Sounds good, and I personally do not mind to call it 2.0 or 3.0 or 1.4.6, you choose. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)