From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4062 invoked by alias); 15 Mar 2002 16:41:45 -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 3993 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2002 16:41:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.135.44) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 2002 16:41:41 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD71C3C9B; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:41:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C922442.5020102@cygnus.com> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:41:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020210 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa/doc] Versions and Branches References: <3C919ABC.7000902@cygnus.com> <2947-Fri15Mar2002105949+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00241.txt.bz2 > +@value{GDBN}'s release branch uses a slightly more complicated scheme. >> +When the branch is first cut, the mainline version identifier is >> +prefixed with the @var{major.minor} from of the previous release series >> +but with @var{.90} appended. As draft releases are drawn from the >> +branch, the minor minor number (@var{.90}) is incremented. Once the >> +first release (@var{M.N}) has been made, the version prefix is updated >> +to @var{M.N.0.90} (dot zero, dot ninety). Follow on releases have an >> +incremented minor minor version number (@var{.0}). > > > Doesn't makeinfo whine about unlikely characters in @var or something? > If it does, use @var{n}.@var{m} instead of @var{n.m} etc. I didn't notice it. So that I know I've got this straight: @var{.0} -> .0 @var{M.N.0.90} -> @var{M}.@var{N}.0.90 BTW, are there any guidelines available online for this? thanks! Andrew (I got the e.g.@: right on the second attempt)