From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: The naming wars continue...
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:52:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041023025237.GK31237@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410221807140.30372-100000@www.fnordora.org>
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 06:08:12PM -0700, alan wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hey guys, calm down, I meant "naming wars" in a silly kind of way, not the
> > nasty kind.
> >
> > The fact is, Linux naming has always sucked. Well, at least the versioning
> > I've used. Others tend to be more organized. Me, I'm the "artistic" type,
> > so I sometimes try to do something new, and invariably stupid.
> >
> > The best suggestion so far has been to _just_ use another number, which
> > makes sense considering my dislike for both -rc and -pre.
> >
> > However, for some reason four numbers just looks visually too obnoxious to
> > me, so as I don't care that much, I'll just use "-rc", and we can all
> > agree that it stands for "Ridiculous Count" rather than "Release
> > Candidate".
> >
> > More importantly, maybe we could all realize that it isn't actually that
> > big of an issue ;)
>
> Besides... -pre and -rc additions do not sort correctly unless your sort
> routine has special cases to take care of it.
I've got a good page or so of compare function in ketchup already, I'm
loathe to teach it about -final though.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 22:05 The naming wars continue Linus Torvalds
2004-10-22 22:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-22 22:53 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-10-22 23:13 ` Espen Fjellvær Olsen
2004-10-23 3:07 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-22 22:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-23 21:25 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-25 21:44 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-26 1:27 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2004-10-26 21:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-22 23:18 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-10-22 23:46 ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-23 0:19 ` Con Kolivas
2004-10-23 1:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-23 1:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-23 1:08 ` alan
2004-10-23 2:52 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2004-10-23 1:38 ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-23 1:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-29 18:33 ` cliff white
2004-10-23 3:03 ` Wakko Warner
2004-10-24 13:33 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-25 23:26 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-26 6:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-10-26 7:32 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-26 11:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-26 11:43 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-26 20:31 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-27 4:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-10-27 8:33 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-27 15:48 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-27 16:11 ` [OT] " Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-10-27 16:14 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-27 16:42 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-10-27 17:27 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-27 21:11 ` [uClibc] " Dave Dodge
2004-10-27 21:15 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-27 22:35 ` Dave Dodge
2004-10-27 23:04 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-29 14:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-27 19:17 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-27 19:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-10-29 14:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-29 14:54 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-29 15:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-27 20:13 ` The naming wars continue... [u] Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-10-27 20:35 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-27 21:35 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-10-26 16:26 ` The naming wars continue Tonnerre
2004-10-26 11:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-26 16:22 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-23 6:20 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-25 21:30 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-25 22:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-25 22:46 ` Hua Zhong
2004-10-27 7:38 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-26 13:09 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-10-27 0:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-10-27 2:41 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-10-26 21:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-27 3:01 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-10-27 3:32 ` Barry K. Nathan
2004-10-27 19:23 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-27 7:37 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-27 20:08 ` l_linux-kernel@mail2news.4t2.com
2004-10-27 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-27 21:13 ` Dave Airlie
2004-10-27 21:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-27 22:52 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-27 22:54 ` Dave Airlie
2004-10-27 23:14 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-23 15:41 ` Stephen Frost
2004-10-23 21:51 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-10-24 0:02 ` Stephen Frost
2004-10-24 3:29 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-10-24 5:02 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-10-25 23:34 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-26 17:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-23 22:16 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-10-23 22:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-24 8:52 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-23 1:35 ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-23 14:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-23 0:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-23 0:43 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-23 21:03 ` Christian Hesse
2004-10-24 0:47 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-23 2:37 ` The naming wars continue... - net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_hashlimit.c does not build Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-10-23 3:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-23 11:23 ` The naming wars continue Erik Hensema
2004-10-23 13:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-23 15:45 ` Hans Reiser
2004-10-23 15:18 ` markus reichelt
2004-10-23 14:46 ` Taso Hatzi
2004-10-24 15:54 ` generic hardirq code in 2.6.10-rc1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-25 6:02 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-25 12:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-29 14:37 ` [patch] 2.6.10-rc1: SCSI aacraid warning Adrian Bunk
2004-10-29 14:45 ` Mark Haverkamp
2004-10-29 15:13 ` Mark Haverkamp
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-23 13:17 The naming wars continue Chuck Ebbert
2004-10-23 14:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-26 6:03 Chuck Ebbert
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