On 2010-11-03 7:26 PM, Marcus Osdoba wrote:
> Am 02.11.2010 19:55, schrieb Felix Fietkau:
>> On 2010-11-02 7:39 PM, Marcus Osdoba wrote:
>>> Just curious about ....
>>> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk?rev=23779
>>>
>>> Assuming 0.9.30_2 means higher patchlevel than 0.9.30_1 shouldn't it be
>>> _1 and _2 who should be removed and preserve the highest patchlevel
>>> 0.9.30_3 ?
>> 0.9.30.1 is what's being used now. 0.9.31 is what's going to be used next.
> Hi, Thanks for answering. I know, that 0.9.31 should be used. I was even 
> woundering, why OpenWrt does not default to it earlier.
> BUT, the question was: why keeping a lower patchlevel and removing 
> higher ones.
> 
> 0.9.30_1 <- still in trunk https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/23779
> 0.9.30_2 <- removed
> 0.9.30_3 <- removed
> 
> If I would switch to 0.9.31 and keep some 0.9.30 version as backup, I 
> would choose the highest patchlevel (which is 0.9.30_3 and not 0.9.30_1)
> 
> Maybe there is some very rational reason for this...
The rational reason is that since 0.9.30.1 has been selected for a while
now, so it's the most tested version. And why bother keeping a backup of
other versions that are never going to be used - this is all under
version control anyway.
- Felix
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