From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3101 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2002 20:04:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2955 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2002 20:04:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO thor.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.11) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Mar 2002 20:04:36 -0000 Received: from zaretsky (diup-217-116.inter.net.il [213.8.217.116]) by thor.inter.net.il (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AHH01962; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 22:04:26 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 12:04:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: ac131313@cygnus.com Message-Id: <2110-Thu07Mar2002220155+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-Mailer: emacs 21.2.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <3C86CC4E.6050801@cygnus.com> (message from Andrew Cagney on Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:11:26 -0500) Subject: Re: ["patch"/doc] GDB version and branch names Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <3C86CC4E.6050801@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00099.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:11:26 -0500 > From: Andrew Cagney > > @value{GDBN}'s mainline uses only dates to differentiate between > versions. The CVS repository uses @file{YYYY-MM-DD-cvs} while > corresponding snapshots use @file{YYYYMMDD}. I suggest to use @var{yyyy}, @var{mm}, etc., since these strings really stand for something else. > To avoid confusion between the main-line, @value{GDBN}'s release branches > use a more complex version naming scheme. The schema assumes that a > series of releases, starting with a major.minor and possibly followed by a > number of major.minor.minor releases are all to be drawn from a single > branch. Same here with `minor' and `major'. > major.minor (@file{m.n}) identification with a @file{.90} suffix and with `m.n'. > The following a example illustrates this sequence using @file{5.1} as That "a" should be removed. > @file{gdb-5.1.93.tar.bz2} is just the @file{gdb-5.2.tar} file renamed an > compressed. Should be "and", not "an", I think. Finally, I wonder if we really need to explain all that in so many words. (But I won't object if you think it's useful.)