[U-Boot-Users] RFC: U-Boot version numbering

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <42848A5C5A0D1E47B026E644DD49B08E028D8045@mail> you wrote:
>
> IMHO I think it is best to stick with the same version numbering
> scheme that you started with, even if it is not perfect. The
> alternative timestamp scheme is not perfect either. You can probably
> find as many advantages for one as for the other, and the same goes
> for the disadvantages.

Well, obvious advantages of the timestamp based version number
include:

* It better matches our current development model, which is planning
  for a more or less fixed relese cycle (versus foir example feature
  based releases).

* It makes it much more easy to find out how old a version is. At the
  moment, if someone reports problems with version 1.1.2 you probably
  know that this is old stuff, but how old exactly? If the  name  was
  1.04.04  you  would  have  seen immediately that this was a version
  from April 2004, and this is *really* old.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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