Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269991AbUJWCNH (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:13:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269983AbUJWCIR (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:08:17 -0400 Received: from 216-99-213-120.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.213.120]:40365 "EHLO clueserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269805AbUJWCFB (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:05:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:08:12 -0700 (PDT) From: alan X-X-Sender: alan@www.fnordora.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Matt Mackall , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1204 Lines: 31 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/