> 1.00rc0 > > Personally, when I see a version number like that, I'm never sure > what it means. Probably the first rc leading up to 1.00, but maybe > it is an rc for 1.01 after 1.00.
Well, I have *never* encountered that `1.00rc0' means a release candidate for 1.01. Have you? > And suffixes sort badly in long lists (see, e.g., > http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/). Anyway. Not trying to change your > ways, but since you raised the subject, tossing in my gratuitious > opinion, sorry. :-) For `political reasons' I need a `1.00' in the version string. Otherwise, I would be just happy with 0.99.91 or so. > [...] he included "support" in automake for the extra gnits checks > we were thinking about. That is all. Well, some tests are quite useful. It's just the version number checking that I consider... limited. Anyways, the problem with `git-version-gen' are real. There might be good reasons to have, say 2.17-foobar to indicate a special modification of 2.17, and git-version-gen doesn't like it. Werner
