Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269239AbUJWDFX (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:05:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269283AbUJWDDC (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:03:02 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([209.173.204.2]:44208 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269802AbUJWCwr (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:52:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:52:37 -0500 From: Matt Mackall To: alan Cc: Linus Torvalds , William Lee Irwin III , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... Message-ID: <20041023025237.GK31237@waste.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1472 Lines: 36 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. - 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/