Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755770AbYGOLbS (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:31:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753029AbYGOLbE (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:31:04 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:60986 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752851AbYGOLbD (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:31:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:31:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Andi Kleen cc: Linus Torvalds , Stoyan Gaydarov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , gorcunov@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? In-Reply-To: <87skubxxtq.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Message-ID: References: <6d291e080807141910m573b29b2t753ea7c4db09902d@mail.gmail.com> <87skubxxtq.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1303 Lines: 29 On Tuesday 2008-07-15 12:10, Andi Kleen wrote: >Linus Torvalds writes: >> >> So if the version were to be date-based, instead of releasing 2.6.26, >> maybe we could have 2008.7 instead. Or just increment the major version >> every decade, the middle version every year, and the minor version every >> time we make a release. Whatever. > >Or you could just do it like emacs or Solaris and simply use a single number. And both emacs and Solaris already have high numbers. For the former that's probably warranted given its long existence. Solaris, hm no, but the "SunOS 5.11" tag on the other hand, is quite "acceptable". Big numbers tend to be forgotten. Do you know offhand what the latest MSOffice is? emacs? udev? less? I doubt you do. My intuitive answers were: 12, 22, "somewhere in the 100s", "somewhere in the 400s". Reality? I had to look up the last two. 12(.with.an.oodle.of.digits), 22.2, 124, 418/424(beta). Maybe Linux would be different because you see the version on some login prompts, dmesg, or similar. -- 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/